Acknowledgments -- Introduction Realism and Class -- REALISM -- INTERWAR CLASS -- Chapter 1 Origins and Foundational Patterns 1913-14 -- ORIGINS -- REALITIES OF THE CITY -- DREAMS OF THE COUNTRY -- ROMANTIC RURALISM AND REALIST URBANISM -- Chapter 2 Working-Class Emergence 1926 and R. M. Fox -- ARNOLD BENNETT AND THE GENERAL STRIKE -- SMELLS, THREATS, RUMBLINGS, ACCIDENTS, AND SUPPRESSIONS -- R. M. FOX AND WORKING-CLASS LITERATURE -- Chapter 3 Ruralism Realized H. E. Bates -- LATE TWENTIES: OPPRESSION AND DESIRE -- THIRTIES BLOOM -- Chapter 4 Colonial Anxieties and Hopes 1926-1930 E. R. Morrough to Winifred Holtby -- MORROUGH'S EGYPT -- LESLIE MITCHELL AND E. M. FORSTER ON EGYPT -- WILLIAM PLOMER AND WINIFRED HOLTBY -- Chapter 5 Rise of Modernist Women -- LATE TWENTIES: TRAVEL AND OPPRESSION -- THE THIRTIES AND STELLA BENSON -- Chapter 6 Soviet Fictions of the Thirties Bolshevism and Michael Zoshchenko -- AGAINST ANTI-BOLSHEVISM: UNDERSTANDING STALIN'S RUSSIA -- MICHAEL ZOSHCHENKO'S EARLY SOVIET EPISODES -- ELISAVETA FEN'S LATE THIRTIES ZOSHCHENKO -- SELF-CRITICISM OR LIES? -- Chapter 7 Realism or Documentary in the Thirties V. S. Pritchett and Peter Chamberlain -- PRITCHETT, FOREIGNER ENGLISHMAN -- CHAMBERLAIN'S SNAPSHOT DOCUMENTARY -- Conclusion Realist Relations -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Author.