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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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Boris Pymiak and the Russian Avant-Garde Art and Culture

The experimental Russian literature of that era pre Stalin and before the purges it's a long story of course. They destroyed Russian avant-garde writers they destroyed the notion of realistic novel okay painting the same it happened so they drew everything from the ship of contemporaneity as Vladimir my my Akovsky would saySo it was challenging it was vital it was really new and what is more it came with the changes in politics in society in relationshipsEverything was changed and art also followed that up to 1932 when because of a study inism when all turned back to old good realism it was called socialist realismYeah So no anymore experiments no anymore strange things no anymore subversions just good old realism yeah

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