Apparently, one should start with the fact that classical detective story did not develop either in pre-revolutionary Russia or in the USSR, where it was replaced by the “militsia novel.” The reasons for this and the general state of affairs in Soviet criminal literature are the subject of my separate article (Read more... )

It's the most simple to begin with the simple statement: in fact there wasn't detective fiction in the Soviet Union but very rare and unwelcome exceptions. Before analysing the causes of such situation one should explain the state of affairs in the Russia before the revolution (and it was very lamentable, too). It influenced the further situation a ( Read more... )

Peter Moiseev

The Science of Murder
The rules of the detective fiction or what is a difference between detective fiction and "hard-boiled" one

The general opinion - which, as one knows, is not accepted either to analyze or criticize it - states: normative poetics is outdated; no genre can be dictated what it should be. At the same time, one forget ( Read more... )