Word: andrel
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...nature of current Soviet literary achievement. Contrary to the Editor's assertion, this material cannot be judged independently of the economic and political regime which did so much to create it and the Advocate's editors, in choosing typical rather than outstanding material, have added to the political significance. Andrel Platonov's "Armour Plate," the story of a marine engineer turned guerilla after his contact with Fascist barbarity, or Vera Inber's "Fragments from a Poem on Besieged Leningrad" are frankly wartime propaganda. But like the other pieces in the issue they are not doctrinaire, but literary blocks...