Stalin, Bulgakov, Meyerhold... Culture under the shadow of a great helmsman

The book of the famous historian and literary critic B. Sokolov talks about the relationship between the authorities and figures of Russian culture in the Stalin era. The vast documentary material shows the difficult fate of A. Platonov, D. Poor, B. Pilnyak, E. Zamyatin, A. Tolstoy, M. Sholokhov, M. Bulgakov, M. Koltsov, I. Babel, V. Meyerhold, S. Eisenstein , M. Zoshchenko. The living and creativity of writers, publicists, directors, their contacts with Stalin, other Soviet leaders, free or involuntary “acquaintance” with punitive departments are the main directions of this study. According to the author, the relationship between the authorities and the artist in a totalitarian society does not at all contribute to the development of a free creative process