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Quotable Quotes
Who did/said that?
100
The Soviet Writers' Union held their first Congress in this year.
What is 1934?
100
This novel person was thought to be the ideal product of Socialist Realist literature.
What is the New Soviet Person?
100
He is considered the father of Socialist Realism in literature.
Who is Maksim Gorky?
100
He called literature and the literary word the "cog and screw" in the mechanism that drives the "politically conscious vanguard" of the working class.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
100
He hung a picture of Christ on the road to Emmaus in his room -- seeing isn't always believing.
Who is Pavel Vlasov?
200
Lenin had only been dead one year when the Politburo published its decree on its policy toward literature.
What is 1925?
200
The image of this medieval Russian knight became a prominent ideal in Socialist Realist art and literature.
What is the bogatyr?
200
He called writers "the engineers of human souls."
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
The Union of Soviet Writers advanced this method of literature as the truthful depiction of Soviet reality "in its revolutionary development" that would result in the “ideological transformation and education of workers in the spirit of socialism.”
What is Socialist Realism?
200
This character says that he carries on his own propaganda "chiefly with the Bible."
Who is Rybin?
300
He was away three years before he returned to Pleasant Colony.
Who is Gleb Chumalov?
300
The Socialist Realist hero is ultimately devoted to this one thing (don't forget to capitalize).
What is the Purpose?
300
Soviet writers were expected to master this literary foundation in each of their works.
What is the Master Plot?
300
This 1918 poem by Vladimir Kirillov describes the liberating force of machinery as "the savoir, the lord of the earth."
What is "The Iron Messiah"?
300
This character keeps asking himself if he has done everything possible to "break free from the iron bonds" that hold him.
Who is Pavel Korchagin?
400
In 1922, Lenin instituted this new policy to bolster the devastated Russian economy.
What is the New Economic Policy (NEP)?
400
In Cement, Serge represents this suspect class of people.
What is the intelligentsia?
400
This fictional writer could write blindfolded with both hands tied behind his back (if need be).
Who is Pavel Korchagin?
400
Although usually quiet, this character eventually speaks as if "millions of lives spoke through her mouth."
Who is Nilovna (the "mother")?
400
This film character agrees to bring a bar of soap to another soldier's wife.
Who is Alyosha Skvartsov?
500
This character toured Germany, but not as a tourist.
Who is Andrei Sokolov?
500
This early Soviet military cap suggests a knight's helmet.
What is the budyonovka?
500
The author's village prose is credited with saving Lake Baikal's delicate ecosystem.
Who is Valentin Rasputin?
500
This errant wife tells her husband that "Love will always be love, but it requires a new form."
Who is Dasha Chumalova?
500
This couple met in the bathhouse at midnight.
Who are Nastyona and Andrei Guskov?