Political Control of Literature in the USSR, 1946-1959
Harold Swayze
Harold Swayze explores the elusive intersection where politics and literature meet—the junction of government directives and partisan emotions. In Russia, the principles of partiinost (party-ness), ideinost (ideological focus), and narodnost (appeal to the people) are combined in a literary system called “socialist realism.” All writers are confined by the system, but not all accept it passively.
Intermittent literary resistance has prevented the Russian government from pursuing a constant policy. Alternations—as between the repressiveness of Zhdanovism and the comparative moderation following Stalin’s death—reflect a recurrent Soviet problem in choosing between severe censorship, with its consequent expressive stagnation and the failure of literature as propaganda; or artistic tolerance, with its intellectual dangers.
Swayze discusses such Soviet writers as Pasternak, Dudintsev, Ehrenburg, and Granin. His analysis of the Russian government’s methods and mistakes illuminates not only the Soviet experience, but the basic relationship between art and society.
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Yıl:
1962
Yayımcı:
Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Dil:
english
Sayfalar:
330
ISBN 10:
0674335554
ISBN 13:
9780674335554
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PDF, 7.51 MB
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english, 1962