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Title: Soviet Literature as it Pertains to The Great Patriotic War


1
Soviet Literature as it Pertains to The Great
Patriotic War
  • By
  • Alex, Anna, and Corey

2
Soviet Writers Union
  • The Union is being created not only to unite
    writers in a physical sense, but so that a
    professional union should make them aware of
    their COLLECTIVE strength. Maxim Gorky
  • The new literature should remain individual in
    its forms and Socialist-Leninist in its
    fundamental governing ideas. Maxim Gorky

3
Konstantin Simonov
  • Born November, 1915
  • Began writing poetry after moving to Moscow
  • Gorky Literary Institute
  • Great Patriotic War
  • 1946- Travels to US
  • Novy Mir
  • Central Committee of the Communist Party
  • Won Lenin Prize, 1947
  • 1977 Hero of Social Labor
  • Died August 28th, 1979
  • Moscow

4
Days and Nights (Dni e Nochi)
  • Summary
  • Captain Aleksei Ivanovich Saburov
  • Elton
  • Anya
  • German Attacks
  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Star
  • Themes
  • Soldier
  • Reasons for fighting
  • Socialist View of Women
  • Underlying Communist Philosophy
  • The Enemy
  • Stalin

5
Pyotr Pavlenko
  • Born June 29, 1899
  • Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Political Affiliations
  • Bolshevik Party
  • Red Army (political worker)
  • Soviet Trade Mission
  • Occupations
  • Wrote film scripts
  • Wrote novels
  • Journalist
  • War Correspondent
  • Awards
  • Four Stalin Prizes (1941, 1947, 1948, and 1950)

6
Happiness
  • Summary
  • Colonel Aleksei Veniaminovich Voropaev
  • Cherkassova movement
  • Stalin
  • Love
  • Communistic references
  • Heroism is organized it is not elemental
  • Joy of fighting
  • Portrayal of Germans
  • To hell with wealth!
  • Description of Churchill
  • View of Americans

7
Valentin Kataev
  • Born January 28, 1897
  • Odessa
  • Began writing as a soldier in WWI
  • Served in Red Army after October Revolution
  • Early works were satiric or comic
  • 1930s after visit to Dnieper Hydroelectric Power
    Station works turned more serious
  • Served in WWII as a war correspondent for Pravda
    and Krasnaya Zvezda
  • 1955-founded Yunost
  • Died April 12, 1986
  • Moscow

8
The Son of the Regiment
  • Summary
  • Communist Themes Throughout
  • Description of Vanya
  • Portrayal of Germans
  • Country before individual
  • Requirements of a hero
  • Stalin Prize Winner, 1946

9
Summary
  • Negative Portrayal of Germans
  • Description of a Hero
  • Stalin and his Cult of Personality

10
References
  • http//www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Russlit_S
    ovietLiterature1917-39.asp
  • http//www.slavweb.com/eng/Russia/literat-e.html
  • http//www.sovlit.com/
  • http//www.sovlit.com/bios/union.html
  • http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSwriters.ht
    m
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