Works of Soviet Literature summarized for those unable or too lazy to read them in the original.

Bonus Material
Interviews, articles, etc., related to Soviet Literature

Lydia Seifullina Remembers Mayakovsky
Lydia Seifullina recalls the first time she saw Mayakovsky.

Konstantin Fedin Comments on Ilya Ehrenburg
"...His genre is words that act...."

Mikhail Bulgakov Remembers Gudok
Excerpt from an unfinished manuscript by Bulgakov in which he recalls
his work at the newspaper Gudok. He calls the work there
"odious" and "a nightmare"; the sketches he wrote for the paper
he describes as full of "stereotypes" and "coarseness".

From the Notebooks of Andrei Platonov
Material which Platonov himself wanted suppresssed,
liberated in 1973 by his widow and offered up for the world to read.

Konstantin Fedin on the State of Soviet Literature, 1957
Short excerpt from an interview in which Fedin comments on the "invigoration"
of Soviet literature and its renewed willingness to present the conflicts and ugliness of life.

Young Soviet Writers About Themselves (1962)
Vasili AKSYONOV, Vasili BYKOV, Andrei VOZNESENSKY, Ivan DRATCH,
Yevgeni YEVTUSHENKO, Yuri KAZAKOV, Justinas MARCINKEVICIUS,
and Anatoli PRISTAVKIN respond to a questionnaire
circulated in 1962 by the magazine
Voprosi Literaturi (Problems of Literature).


One- and two-sentence summaries of over 200 works.
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