From Intellectual Response to Literary Practice: Totalitarianism and Literaturnyi Byt in Emigration
摘要
The advent of totalitarianism in Europe and the Soviet Union wrought a new paradigm in literary practice and production for the writers living under those regimes. While the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany vied for cultural dominance on the global stage, political ideology merged with unprecedented and increasing state control to mould not only the means of literary production and reception but also the very literature itself.