1. Russia Lit

2. Leo Tolstoy

3. Wrote “War and Peace” “Anna Karenina” “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”

4. Rejects the mainstream self-indulgent values

5. Believed he had a duty to portray life honestly

6. Soviet Lit

7. Alexander Blok (revolutionary poet) Wrote- “The Twelve”; embraced the revolutionary ideas

8. Vladimir mayakousky Wrote- “Americans Wonder” – Forced people to notice the events taking place around them

9. Propaganda

10. Lit used for propaganda

11. “socialist realism” idolizes socialism + Marxist- Leninist views; capitalism=evil; praised family ideals, loyalty to the revolution, and importance of hard work

12. Censorship under Stalin

13. Writers forced to join Union of Soviet writers in order to publish their works

14. Writers persecuted, imprisoned, killed

15. Authors’ works censored, forced to remove parts of stories/poems that criticized the czar in any way, so they hid the criticism in the story plots

16. Title

17. “In the struggle against lies, art has always won and always will. Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

18. Early lit. mostly religious works, folktales, and poems

19. “The Song of Prince Igor’s Campaign”- written in 1190’s, most famous of early writings

20. 1800’s: Russia’s “Golden Age” of lit.

21. The thaw

22. Government finally made censorship more lenient

23. (writer) Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “One day in the Life of Ivan Denisouich” (criticized Stalin’s government)

24. (poet) Yeugeny Yeutushenko: “Babi Yar” (criticized Russian anti-Semitism under Stalin)

25. writer Boris Pasternak (writer) Could not publish novel “Dr. Zhivago”

26. Was forced by soviet government to refuse his reward of the Nobel Prize for lit.

27. samizdat

28. Way of avoiding censorship System of published work in secret (smuggled works out of the country to be published else where) For writers who criticized government