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The USSR's Writer's Union, a form of cultural and political organization unknown in the West, has ruled every aspect of Russian writers' private and professional lives from the time of Stalin to the present day. This book shows how the union has operated over the last five decades.

Table of Contents
Organising Utopia; whip and gingerbread; party guidance; Soviet Parnassus; crimes and punishments; purity and profit; the threat of glasnost; the promise of perestroika. Appendix: facts and figures.

Inside the Soviet Writers' Union

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    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 31/12/1990
    ISBN13: 9781850432609, 978-1850432609
    ISBN10: 1850432600
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    The USSR's Writer's Union, a form of cultural and political organization unknown in the West, has ruled every aspect of Russian writers' private and professional lives from the time of Stalin to the present day. This book shows how the union has operated over the last five decades.

    Table of Contents
    Organising Utopia; whip and gingerbread; party guidance; Soviet Parnassus; crimes and punishments; purity and profit; the threat of glasnost; the promise of perestroika. Appendix: facts and figures.

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