The Rainbow ( the Stalin Prize Novel ) the Story of Love, Hate and Revenge in a Russian Village

Winnipeg: Contemporary Publishers. Very Good. 1944. First Edition Thus. Paperback. 96 pages; Winnipeg: Very Good. 1944. First Edition Thus. 96 pages; Contents clean and secure in original color printed wrappers, paper age toned, small area of erosion/chipping at outer corner of rear wrapper and last few leaves. The Story of Love, Hate and Revenge in a Russian Village. Translated by Edith Bone and edited for American readers by Sonia Bleeker. A condensed edition with a biography of the author By Marjorie Shaw, Moscow (reprinted from the Toronto Star Weekly) . Stalin Prize winning novel about struggle of the Russian people against invading German army; set in a Ukranian village. Wanda Wasilewska (1905 - 1964) , was a Polish and Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist. She was a socialist who became also a devoted Soviet communist. At the time of publication, Wasilewska was a prominent member of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, the Moscow-backed administrative authority in liberated parts of Poland. Her partner Alexander Korneichuk, Ukrainian playwright and Soviet state official, was chairman of the Committee for Arts of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, previously foreign commisar of the Ukraine. . ; Literature in Translation, Womens Studies and Women Authors, Most Recent Listing .