Literature"s Inspiring Poison. How Literary Works Influenced the Fate of Russia and the USSR

The book is devoted to the study of the influence of literature and art on people of power, on the decisions they make. The poison of literature is the truth that can kill and inspire. Such poison is carried by Pushkin’s poems and poems, at one time they were “poisoned” by the Decembrists and Slavophiles. The creations of the great artists Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali and the great writer of America Ernest Hemingway, on whom the FBI started the work of operational development, are saturated with this poison. This is the poison of Solzhenitsyn’s literature, a literary antidote to which the KGB political counterintelligence was looking for. This is the poison of the Bulgakov’s “days of the Turbins”, which pushed Stalin into the arms of the imperial idea, and the poison of the Tolstoy play “Living Corpse”, forbidden by the Americans to produce in their occupation zone the defeated Nazi Germany. In this “family” of literary poisons, the play “Front”, supported by Stalin, but outraged his generals and marshals, who did not sufferly talentedly struggled with the enemies of the Fatherland. Without embellishment, the literary program of the “cold” war of the twentieth century, created by Harvard’s professors in alliance with the CIA, is described without embellishment. And the poison of the image of a Russian capitalist, ruthlessly represented by Chekhov in his stories and plays, makes him look with other eyes to today"s capitalism.

The book will be useful for culturalists, philologists, historians and all the literature interested in the sociology