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Until the late 1920s various forms of artistic expression were tolerated. However the increase of the scope of the [[Soviet political repression]], marked by the first [[show trial]], the [[Shakhty Trial]], brought into the focus of [[Bolsheviks]] the question whether "[[bourgeois]] [[intelligentsia]]", including workers of culture and arts, can be loyal to the [[Soviet power]] and can be trusted. As an early step was an instruction to the [[Russian Association of Proletarian Writers]] "to scourge and chastice [literature]" in the name of the Party", i.e., effectively encouraging [[censorship]] of [[literature]] on ideological grounds. Among the first targets were [[Yevgeny Zamiatin]] and [[Boris Pilnyak]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Rudova | first = Larissa | title = Understanding Boris Pasternak | publisher = University of South Carolina Press | location = Columbia | year = 1997 | isbn = 1-57003-143-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_bt0ZK8fekcC&pg=PA64&dq=%22ideological+repression%22+%22soviet+Union%22 |page=64}}</ref> |
Until the late 1920s various forms of artistic expression were tolerated. However the increase of the scope of the [[Soviet political repression]], marked by the first [[show trial]], the [[Shakhty Trial]], brought into the focus of [[Bolsheviks]] the question whether "[[bourgeois]] [[intelligentsia]]", including workers of culture and arts, can be loyal to the [[Soviet power]] and can be trusted. As an early step was an instruction to the [[Russian Association of Proletarian Writers]] "to scourge and chastice [literature]" in the name of the Party", i.e., effectively encouraging [[censorship]] of [[literature]] on ideological grounds. Among the first targets were [[Yevgeny Zamiatin]] and [[Boris Pilnyak]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Rudova | first = Larissa |author-link=Larissa Rudova | title = Understanding Boris Pasternak | publisher = University of South Carolina Press | location = Columbia | year = 1997 | isbn = 1-57003-143-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_bt0ZK8fekcC&pg=PA64&dq=%22ideological+repression%22+%22soviet+Union%22 |page=64}}</ref> |
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Soon the concept of [[Socialist Realism]] was established, as the officially approved form of art, an instrument of [[propaganda]], and the main [[touchstone (metaphor)|touchstone]] of ideological [[censorship]]. |
Soon the concept of [[Socialist Realism]] was established, as the officially approved form of art, an instrument of [[propaganda]], and the main [[touchstone (metaphor)|touchstone]] of ideological [[censorship]]. |
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Ideological repression in the Soviet Union targeted various worldviews and the corresponding categories of people.
Ideological repression in arts
Until the late 1920s various forms of artistic expression were tolerated. However the increase of the scope of the Soviet political repression, marked by the first show trial, the Shakhty Trial, brought into the focus of Bolsheviks the question whether "bourgeois intelligentsia", including workers of culture and arts, can be loyal to the Soviet power and can be trusted. As an early step was an instruction to the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers "to scourge and chastice [literature]" in the name of the Party", i.e., effectively encouraging censorship of literature on ideological grounds. Among the first targets were Yevgeny Zamiatin and Boris Pilnyak.[1]
Soon the concept of Socialist Realism was established, as the officially approved form of art, an instrument of propaganda, and the main touchstone of ideological censorship.
Repression of religion
Ideological repression in science
Certain scientific fields in the Soviet Union were suppressed after being labeled as ideologically suspect.[2][3] In some cases the consequences of ideological influences were dramatic. The suppression of research began during the Stalin era and continued, in softened forms, after his regime.[4]
See also
- Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War
- Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union
- Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union
References
- ^ Rudova, Larissa (1997). Understanding Boris Pasternak. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. p. 64. ISBN 1-57003-143-6.
- ^ Loren R. Graham (2004) Science in Russia and the Soviet Union. A Short History. Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Science. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-28789-0
- ^ Mark Walker (2002) Science and Ideology. A Comparative History. Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-27122-6
- ^ Loren R. Graham, Science and philosophy in the Soviet Union. New York, 1972, [1][dead link][ISBN missing]
