Union of Soviet Writers

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professional association state-controlled organization writers' organization

The Union of Soviet Writers was a state-controlled professional organization that unified and regulated authors in the USSR, enforcing socialist realism and ideological conformity in literature.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Union of Soviet Writers canonical	14
All-Russian Union of Writers	1
Russian Association of Proletarian Writers	1

Statements (73)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	professional association ⓘ state-controlled organization ⓘ writers' organization ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Soviet Union ⓘ surface form: USSR
awards	literary prizes ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ
controls	access to publication in the USSR ⓘ allocation of writers' housing and benefits ⓘ foreign travel opportunities for writers ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
dissolved	1991 ⓘ
enforces	censorship norms in literature ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Soviet culture ⓘ literature ⓘ
hasMember	Alexei Tolstoy ⓘ surface form: Aleksey Tolstoy Alexander Fadeyev ⓘ Alexander Solzhenitsyn ⓘ Alexander Tvardovsky ⓘ Andrei Platonov ⓘ Anna Akhmatova ⓘ Boris Pasternak ⓘ Chingiz Aitmatov ⓘ Daniil Kharms ⓘ Ilya Ehrenburg ⓘ Isaac Babel ⓘ Konstantin Paustovsky ⓘ Konstantin Simonov ⓘ Korney Chukovsky ⓘ surface form: Kornei Chukovsky Maksim Gorky ⓘ surface form: Maxim Gorky Mikhail Bulgakov ⓘ Mikhail Sholokhov ⓘ Mikhail Zoshchenko ⓘ Nâzim Hikmet ⓘ surface form: Nazim Hikmet Nikolai Ostrovsky ⓘ Rasul Gamzatov ⓘ Samuil Marshak ⓘ Sergei Yesenin ⓘ Valentin Kataev ⓘ Vasiliy Grossman ⓘ surface form: Vasily Grossman Vladimir Mayakovsky ⓘ Yevgeny Yevtushenko ⓘ
hasPart	Union of Writers of Belarus ⓘ Union of Writers of Kazakhstan ⓘ Union of Writers of Ukraine ⓘ Union of Writers of Russia ⓘ surface form: Union of Writers of the RSFSR republican writers' unions ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Moscow ⓘ
ideology	Marxism–Leninism ⓘ socialist realism ⓘ
inception	1932 ⓘ
languageUsed	Russian ⓘ
locatedInTime	Leonid Brezhnev ⓘ surface form: Brezhnev era de-Stalinization ⓘ surface form: Khrushchev Thaw perestroika ⓘ surface form: Perestroika Stalin era ⓘ
memberOf	Soviet mass organizations system ⓘ surface form: Soviet creative unions system
notableWork	Literaturnaya Gazeta ⓘ
organizes	writers' congresses ⓘ
purpose	control of literary production in the USSR ⓘ enforcement of ideological conformity in literature ⓘ promotion of socialist realism in literature ⓘ
regulates	membership of professional writers ⓘ
replacedBy	Union of Writers of Russia ⓘ surface form: Russian Union of Writers Union of Writers of Russia ⓘ
replaces	Union of Soviet Writers self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: All-Russian Union of Writers Union of Soviet Writers self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Russian Association of Proletarian Writers
significantEvent	First Congress of Soviet Writers ⓘ adoption of the doctrine of socialist realism ⓘ expulsion of dissident writers ⓘ rehabilitation of previously banned authors during the Khrushchev Thaw ⓘ
subordinateTo	Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ Department for Agitation and Propaganda ⓘ surface form: Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the CPSU Central Committee

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Soviet literature → supervisedBy → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

socialist realism → associatedWithOrganization → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov → memberOf → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

Yevgeny Yevtushenko → memberOf → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

Daniil Granin → memberOf → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

Samuil Marshak → memberOf → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

Boris Strugatsky → memberOf → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

Andrei Voznesensky → memberOf → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

Union of Soviet Writers → replaces → Union of Soviet Writers self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Russian Association of Proletarian Writers

Union of Soviet Writers → replaces → Union of Soviet Writers self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: All-Russian Union of Writers

Arkady Strugatsky → memberOf → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

First Congress of Soviet Writers → organizedBy → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

First Congress of Soviet Writers → relatedOrganization → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

Sergey Mikhalkov → memberOf → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

Soviet state art institutions → hasComponent → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ

Peredelkino → associatedWith → Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ