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.
Statements (81)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary tradition
→
national literature → |
| countryOfOrigin |
Soviet Union
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| dominantMovement |
socialist realism
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| endTime |
1991
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|
| follows |
Russian Empire literature
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| 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
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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
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| period |
Brezhnev stagnation literature
→
Khrushchev Thaw literature → Stalin era literature → early revolutionary period → perestroika literature → |
| politicalFunction |
ideological education
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mobilization of the masses → propaganda tool → |
| regulatedBy |
Glavlit
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state censorship → |
| relatedTo |
Russian literature
→
dissident movement in the Soviet Union → samizdat → socialist realism → |
| startTime |
1922
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|
| supervisedBy |
Union of Soviet Writers
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Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Maksim Gorky
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influenced |