History of Russian Literature. Volume 2

In the second half of the twentieth century, Russian literature went to his dramatic way, overcoming the hard ideological control of censorship and party structures. In 1953, writing organizations began preparation of the Second World Writers of the USSR, newspapers and magazines published installation articles on socialist realism, about a positive hero, on the role of writers in the construction of a new prosperous society. On the eve of the congress, M. Sholokhov presented 126 pages of the novel Raised Coleno D. Shepilov, who found that Heads are thickly saturated with naturalistic scenes and even clearly erotic moments, and reported to Khrushchev. By sending heads to refinement, two party officials decided the creative question in their own way. II Congress of Soviet writers (1954) passed under the strict control of the staff of the CPSU Central Committee, only once a bright speech was called M.A. Sholokhov. At the direction of the highest jeques of the purity of ideology with criticism, M. Sholokhov spoke by F. Gladkov, following him - pro-Western liberals. At that time, the controversy was raised around the Romans of V. Grossman Life and Fate, B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago, V. Dudintseva Not Broke One, works by A. Solzhenitsyn, launched discussions between the magazines New World and October And then between the magazines Young Guard and New World. The result was the voluntary resignation of L. Sobolev, Chairman of the Writers of Russia, who wrote to the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU that he could not defeat the anti-Russian group of writers: This from vividly resembles the long-standing rappov times when the art of organize a meeting , prepare the election , To conduct a resolution was brought to perfection, inclusive to a thorough distribution of roles: to whom, when, where and what exactly speak. We can not oppose modern masters of the backstage struggle. We do not have any experience or tested speakers, and our army is scattered around Russia, they will not collect him in abuse, nor in Maleevka to develop a scenario of the congress, planning table and distribution of tasks (source. 1998. No. 3. P. 104) And with the pages of magazines and books to readers, I had wonderful works of Russian writers, such as Mikhail Sholokhov, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak (Pochov Collections), Alexander Tvardovsky, Evgeny Nosov, Konstantin Vorobyov, Vasily Belov, Victor Astafiev, Arkady Savelichev, Vladimir Lichutin, Nikolai Rubtsov, Nikolai Rollykin, Vladimir Sokolov, Yuri Kuznetsov ... The publication includes reviews of literature of several decades, literary portraits