Word: proletcult
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...Proletcult Critics...
...Nowadays the kind of book review that devotes 11 paragraphs to telling you about the crisis in capitalist culture and its last 3 paragraphs to explaining why the reviewer is a better Marxist than the author of the book seems hopelessly dated and quaint. Occasionally the proletcult critics were unconsciously quite funny--witness Mike Gold's attacks on Thornton Wilder. Wilder's religion was "a pastel, pastiche, dilettante religion, without the true neurotic blood and fire, a daydream of homosexual figures in graceful gowns moving archaically among the lilies. Or his description of Archibald MacLeish: a "white collar fascist...
...even though this Proletcult school was doomed to fail, it did succeed in developing a more literate race, more susceptible to books and also, propaganda. In the 1920's, with his country facing an economic breakdown, Lenin instituted a New Economic Policy (NEP), a sort of free enterprise economy. Coinciding with this economic easing of control, there was a new boom in creativity. Russian writers began to experiment with different types of forms, visited other countries, and even wrote books about other countries...
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