Viktor Dotsenko

Viktor Dotsenko is a Russian author. The author of a series of action/adventure novels featuring Savely Govorkov, Dotsenko has often appeared on best-seller lists and was one of the best-selling authors in Russia in the 1990s.[1][2] According to 2007's Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, Dotsenko's thrillers of the 1990s bore patriotic and anti-Western themes.[3] 2007's Literary Russia: A Guide credits him, alongside Alexandra Marinina, with pioneering the thriller genre in Russia.[4]

  1. ^ Marsh, Rosalind; Rosalind J. Marsh (2007). Literature, history and identity in post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006. Peter Lang. p. 83. ISBN 978-3-03911-069-8. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  2. ^ Barker, Adele Marie (1999). Consuming Russia: popular culture, sex, and society since Gorbachev. Duke University Press. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-0-8223-2313-6. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  3. ^ Barker (2007), p. 493.
  4. ^ Bartlett, Rosamund; Anna Benn (13 December 2007). Literary Russia: a guide. Overlook Duckworth. p. xii. ISBN 978-0-7156-3622-0.