First Congress of Soviet Writers

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cultural conference writers' congress

The First Congress of Soviet Writers was a landmark 1934 gathering in Moscow that unified Soviet literary policy and ideology, establishing the framework for state-controlled literature in the USSR.

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Label	Occurrences
First Congress of Soviet Writers canonical	2
First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural conference ⓘ writers' congress ⓘ
aim	to consolidate control of literature by the Soviet state ⓘ to define the role of writers in socialist society ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	First Congress of Soviet Writers ⓘ surface form: First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers
attendance	hundreds of delegates from across the Soviet Union ⓘ
attendee	Alexei Tolstoy ⓘ surface form: Aleksey Tolstoy Alexander Fadeyev ⓘ Andrei Zhdanov ⓘ Boris Pasternak ⓘ Demyan Bedny ⓘ Ilya Ehrenburg ⓘ Isaac Babel ⓘ Korney Chukovsky ⓘ surface form: Kornei Chukovsky Maksim Gorky ⓘ surface form: Maxim Gorky Mikhail Sholokhov ⓘ Mikhail Zoshchenko ⓘ Nikolai Bukharin ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
endDate	1934-09-01 ⓘ
field	cultural politics ⓘ literature ⓘ
followedBy	Second Congress of Soviet Writers ⓘ
genre	politically controlled cultural event ⓘ
ideology	socialist realism ⓘ
impact	marginalized experimental and avant-garde literary movements in the USSR ⓘ standardized literary themes and styles in Soviet literature ⓘ
keynoteSpeaker	Andrei Zhdanov ⓘ
language	Russian ⓘ
location	Moscow ⓘ
organizedBy	Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ
politicalContext	Stalin era ⓘ
presidingOfficer	Maksim Gorky ⓘ surface form: Maxim Gorky
relatedIdeology	Marxism–Leninism ⓘ Stalin era ⓘ surface form: Stalinism
relatedOrganization	Union of Soviet Writers ⓘ
result	formal adoption of socialist realism as the official literary method ⓘ strengthening of Party control over literary production ⓘ
scope	all-Union ⓘ
significance	established framework for state-controlled literature in the USSR ⓘ landmark gathering that unified Soviet literary policy and ideology ⓘ
sponsor	Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
startDate	1934-08-17 ⓘ
supervisedBy	Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
topic	Soviet literature ⓘ cultural policy ⓘ literary policy ⓘ
year	1934 ⓘ

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socialist realism → formallyAdoptedAtEvent → First Congress of Soviet Writers ⓘ

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

First Congress of Soviet Writers → alsoKnownAs → First Congress of Soviet Writers ⓘ

this entity surface form: First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers