THE SOVIET AND FOREIGN WRITERS AT THE SIXTH WORLD FESTIVAL OF YOUTH AND STUDENTS
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2018-4-215-229
Abstract
The article examines the role of the Writers’ Union of the USSR and the country’s individual authors in the organization of the World Youth Festival in Moscow in 1957. The forum helped rekindle the literary connections and reestablish contacts with European and American writers which had been severed in the late 1930s. Besides, young writers from Africa, Asia and South America were able to visit the festival. This forum was a highly significant international event which grasped the attention of the writers from most Soviet republics and autonomous regions. Until now, this aspect has not been discussed neither in Russia nor abroad. The author provides a rich compendium of materials from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, some of which are in print for the first time.
About the Author
E. Kolobov
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Evgeny Y. Kolobov, Candidate of Historical Sciences
82 Vernadsky Av., Moscow, 119571
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Kolobov E. THE SOVIET AND FOREIGN WRITERS AT THE SIXTH WORLD FESTIVAL OF YOUTH AND STUDENTS. Voprosy literatury. 2018;(4):215-229. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2018-4-215-229
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