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Russia Lit

Russia Lit. Leo Tolstoy. Wrote “War and Peace” “Anna Karenina” “The Death of Ivan Ilyich ”. Rejects the mainstream self-indulgent values. Believed he had a duty to portray life honestly. Soviet Lit. Alexander Blok (revolutionary poet)

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Russia Lit

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  1. Russia Lit

  2. Leo Tolstoy

  3. Wrote • “War and Peace” • “Anna Karenina” • “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”

  4. Rejects the mainstream self-indulgent values

  5. Believed he had a duty to portray life honestly

  6. Soviet Lit

  7. Alexander Blok (revolutionary poet) • Wrote- “The Twelve”; embraced the revolutionary ideas

  8. Vladimir mayakousky • Wrote- “Americans Wonder” • Forced people to notice the events taking place around them

  9. Propaganda

  10. Lit used for propaganda

  11. “socialist realism” idolizes socialism + Marxist-Leninist views; capitalism=evil; praised family ideals, loyalty to the revolution, and importance of hard work

  12. Censorship under Stalin

  13. Writers forced to join Union of Soviet writers in order to publish their works

  14. Writers persecuted, imprisoned, killed

  15. Authors’ works censored, forced to remove parts of stories/poems that criticized the czar in any way, so they hid the criticism in the story plots

  16. Title

  17. “In the struggle against lies, art has always won and always will. Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.” • Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  18. Early lit. mostly religious works, folktales, and poems

  19. “The Song of Prince Igor’s Campaign”- written in 1190’s, most famous of early writings

  20. 1800’s: Russia’s “Golden Age” of lit.

  21. The thaw

  22. Government finally made censorship more lenient

  23. (writer) Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “One day in the Life of Ivan Denisouich” (criticized Stalin’s government)

  24. (poet) YeugenyYeutushenko: “BabiYar” (criticized Russian anti-Semitism under Stalin)

  25. writer • Boris Pasternak (writer) • Could not publish novel “Dr. Zhivago”

  26. Was forced by soviet government to refuse his reward of the Nobel Prize for lit.

  27. samizdat

  28. Way of avoiding censorship • System of published work in secret (smuggled works out of the country to be published else where) • For writers who criticized government

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