Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialist Realism Dominant
When Stalin instituted his first five-year plan in 1928, calling for a concerted drive to heavy industry, still another type of literature arose--the form which is compulsory in the Soviet Union now; Socialist Realism...
...former, the latter suffered. Writers were forced to read their stories to assemblies of workers and writers, for "constructive criticism"; they had to sign time pledges for their books, just as a factory worker did. In writing about this period, the authors were almost always forced to use this Socialist Realism. Socialist Realism, in short, must depict conditions in factories, or farms, but in such a way that there must be an affirmation of the success of the communist system...
Except for the war-period, when the Russians reintroduced folklore into their literature to arouse national patriotism, this basic Socialist Realism, with its tedious patterns of thought, has persisted. The basic philosophy of the Soviet Union is utilitarian--a realistic novel is easiest to read, safest for propaganda, and therefore the best. The Soviet Union is afraid of thinking in contradiction to the regime. A James Joyce or Franz Kafka would be unknown in Russia today--he'd be too hard to read, besides being called "intellectual-bourgeois...
...discouraging 2½ years, handsome Tiruvallur Thattaf Krishnamachari, Madras businessman, spoke up for private enterprise in India. As Nehru's able Minister for Commerce and Industry, Krishnamachari believed that "the private sector" could make a sizable contribution, even to Socialist-minded India. Last fall, when the government decided that India needed more steel mills, Krishnamachari proposed to give a contract to India's wealthy G. Birla interests. Pandit Nehru said...