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Russian/Soviet Literature

Russian/Soviet Literature


The Soviet Union. Three words that many people despised in the 20th century, even the Russians themselves. After the Soviet Union was established in 1922, citizens, with a lack of personal freedoms, began to revolt and express their feelings on this new system. Because of some of the actions taken and some of the writings by the people, they were often deported or expelled from the country. Their writings were not allowed to be published until the late 1980’s when Mikhail Gorbachev was in control. Although many factors contributed to the downfall of the Soviet Union and communism, Russian writers and their works changed people’s views and feelings about this system, greatly contributing to its destruction. It was not until 1989, when Gorbachev announced freedom of speech and freedom of publication in the Soviet Union, where works from Solzhenitsyn and Boris Pasternak were published in huge prints. Since the Soviet Union was still in existe...

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