FOUR REVOLUTIONARY FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHIES IN FOUR PARADIGMATICRUSSIAN & SOVIET NOVELS (FIRST HALF, XX CENTURY)
FOUR REVOLUTIONARY FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHIES IN FOUR PARADIGMATICRUSSIAN & SOVIET NOVELS (FIRST HALF, XX CENTURY)

Summary/Abstract: Taking into account four of the most edited Russian/ Soviet novels of the Socialist Realism period, (N. G. Cernîșevski' What is to Be Done; Nikolai Ostrovskiʼ How the Steel Was Tempered; Mihail Sholohovʼ Quiet Flows the Don and Gorkiʼ Mother) we try to detect their artistic value despite ideological intrusion. In our presentation we probe the contextual conditions of these books which have been promoted by a well-organized propaganda system during the socialist realism period, in years '30 of the XX century in URSS and later in the communist European countries. Which reasons made those four books to have been translated in numerous languages and have been edited in incredible numbers of copies? Maybe these books are not condemned to indifference.

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