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The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture
The Making of the State Writer Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture Author:Evgeny Dobrenko This book completes the author's study of the sociology of the literary process in Soviet Russia, begun in The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature (Stanford, 1997). The author demonstrates that Socialist Realism is not so much directed as it is self directed; the transformat... more »ion of the author into his own censor is the true history of Soviet literature.« less