Soviet literature

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Soviet literature is the body of literary works produced in the Soviet Union, characterized by its engagement with socialist ideology, state censorship, and themes of class struggle, collectivism, and the building of a communist society.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary tradition
national literature
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
dominantMovement socialist realism
endTime 1991
follows Russian Empire literature
hasLanguage Armenian
Belarusian
Georgian
Kazakh
Russian
Ukrainian
Uzbek
other languages of the Soviet Union
hasTheme Soviet everyday life
building of a communist society
class struggle
collectivism
conflict between individual and state
industrialization
peasant to worker transformation
repression and censorship
war and patriotism
includesGenre children's literature
dissident literature
drama
novel
poetry
samizdat literature
science fiction
short story
war literature
influencedBy Bolshevik Revolution
European modernism
Marxism–Leninism
Realism
Russian Civil War
Russian revolutionary movement
World War I
notableAuthor Alexander Fadeyev
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Andrei Platonov
Andrei Voznesensky
Anna Akhmatova
Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Pasternak
Boris Strugatsky
Isaac Babel
Korney Chukovsky
Maxim Gorky
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Sholokhov
Osip Mandelstam
Samuil Marshak
Varlam Shalamov
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
notableWork And Quiet Flows the Don
Doctor Zhivago
How the Steel Was Tempered
Kolyma Tales
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Gulag Archipelago
The Master and Margarita
officialDoctrine socialist realism
period Brezhnev stagnation literature
Khrushchev Thaw literature
Stalin era literature
early revolutionary period
perestroika literature
politicalFunction ideological education
mobilization of the masses
propaganda tool
regulatedBy Glavlit
state censorship
relatedTo Russian literature
dissident movement in the Soviet Union
samizdat
socialist realism
startTime 1922
supervisedBy Union of Soviet Writers

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Maksim Gorky
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