Word: khurshchev
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...such attitudes "dogmatic." They claim there is room in the Soviet Union for both the influx of foreign art and literature, and also indigenous creativity that does not-necessarily hue to the line of socialist realism. Again, the Party's policies are dictated primarily by political considerations. When Premier Khurshchev decided the publication of the startling novel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch would be a wise political move, he made it. When it appeared the pressure for more intellectual freedom was growing out of hand, Khrushchev summarily squashed the dissident voices...
Immediately Western commentators were predicting a new era of cultural freedom in the Soviet Union. A headline in The New York Times of November 29 reported "Easing of Curbs on Soviet Literature Is Attributed to Order by Khurshchev." Hayward and Leopold Labedz proclaimed in their introduction to the Praegar translation that One Day "is a revolutionary document that will effect the climate of life inside the Soviet Union...
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