FREE LOVE OR FAMILY? In the 1930s, all that the average Hungarian knew about Communist family policy was that if they came to power they would introduce “women’s communes”. There was some basis for this fear, as every socialist or socialist-inspired revolution throughout history has raised again the question of
“AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN OR HELL?” THE SOVIET UNION IN THE 1930s Only with some knowledge of the political environment into which he arrived on 22 June 1934 is it possible to understand Illyés’s Russia. Around the world, narrow, insular circles of far left and Communist intellectuals had been
A Background to Gyula Illyés’s Russia1 Part I From 17 August to 1 September 1934 the first Congress of Soviet Writers was convened in Moscow – the first writers’ congress in the history of world literature. In addition to the 600 Soviet delegates, 40 foreign writers also participated. Though there
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