Word: dostoievsky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general cultural aims of the Soviet Union." These aims are fairly well known. Generally, they are: "... to raise the cultural level of the entire population and to create the foundations of a Communist culture, as opposed to Capitalist culture." U. S. readers who think vaguely of Tolstoi and Dostoievski as timelessly typical of Russian literature will be disillusioned by this book. When Tolstoi died in 1910. Lenin wrote that "prerevolutionary Russia, with its lack of energy and strength, expressed in the philosophy of a genuine artist, has receded into the past." Roughly, Dostoievski and Tolstoi are as representative of contemporary...