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Kevin McKenna on Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Union, and In the First Circle

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How Did the USSR Writers' Union Control Publication?

Kevin describes the Writers' Union's gatekeeping role and the requirements of narodnost, ideological purity, and partiinost.

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