The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28
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WORLD
BY Joseph Freeman.

JOSSpA
TEE written
Lozowick and myself is Of little general I'm
portance.
The significant question is this @was there literary inquson"
extent that it created veriable
death-valey desert?"
The charge when honestly believed proceeds in part from an illusion
among that the Soviet Union
directed the organized working class but by few powerful
particularly bogeyman named Stain And anything
wrong the will the the deliberate direction this
bogeyman his machine"
This is childish fantasy II the Russian Party neglected tbs literary
point harmful
because there existed such thing Stains literary nqtion
period
country busy
night with the colossal Of building socialist industry and agriculture
magnitude
was fulfilled known everybody Dneproy Magntogors
Cheabnsk stangrad the colecvaon Of agriculture their
hands; with the necessity against the constant threat
with specialists anxious disrupt the
hundred tremendous political
the blamed
paying minimum Of attention to literary problems
THE period
periods history
in comparable the october Revolution the political ned
the economic verhcaton Of the october Revolution
At critical
and these conflicts reflected literature The fowavers tend
vacae their vacaons
During military N. Party
military fronts groups attempted
hegmony literary group
RAPP attempted after the introduction
October describes Party per-
the literary
the resolution opposed
and dogmatic dictatorship letters
THE period literary
manifestations period
vaclaon certain
tempt by certain proetaran writer's to keep them in line Eventually
that attempt
April % ss2as July the Party dssolvng all literary
groupings reaf6rmed It's policy Of free revolutionary literature
THE responsible RAPPs blndes
Year Plan the Partys attention directed
true the case of
Pnyak Anogeno the Theatre
and others
attention fundamental literary
reafdrmed unbroken policy
deveopment of revolutionary literature.
Tz accusation that the Soviet Union peutes" writers is an old
one 1t has been made persisenty by of the
Preceding the Modern Monthly by six of white
emres in Paris headed by Konstan Baont
sian authors hng Russia ms declaration said
that literature and literary workers the Soviet Union
wreched state.
ferow-aveer Immediately
They branded the declaration" caumny and forgery
They
their declaration to Roman ROLAND asked him to protest against
alleged persecution literature the Soviet
attempted charges
writing Maxim Cork orks reply of unusual interest for
Russia for many years both before and after the october Revolution
He knows Russian life and literature no other Russian writer does
of tendencies
pUT what interesting specific problems
under discussion here that Maxim Cork and RAPP from the
bitter antagonists More than other individual in the
unhealthy manifestations the literary front
Gorkis
literary position declared did
"proletarian nonroaian writer"
all the Soviet Union celebrating
Gos literary activity calling him
called Cork the
proletaran writer.
ofthe imposing
RAPP who as a -proletaran"
of reply charges
Paris like the charges the Modern Monthly of
significance throws Of light the which
any group powerful
literary q whole
Gorkis Roman ROLAND will
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