Soviet Prose After the War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9760584 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc Slonim (Sarah Lawrence College, corresponding author), Marc L Slonim (Sarah Lawrence College) |
| Year | 1949 |
| Volume | 263 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-113 |
| Publication date | 1949-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271624926300110 |
| OpenAlex | W2014291199 |
| Language | EN |
FOR almost five years after June 1941, Soviet literature was a war literature. The gigantic struggle for the fatherland provided all the subject matter to Russian novelists, playwrights, and poets. In no other country did the war absorb the writers so completely or was it reflected in so many works as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Of course, this literary activity was considered a part of the war effort: the men of letters did what the Government, the party, and the country expected and asked them to do. The common opinion was that novelettes on German
Art · Economic history · Fatherland · German · German Literature · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Russian literature · Soviet union · Spanish Civil War · Subject (documents · Subject matter · World War II · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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