Open AccessTHE SOVIET AND FOREIGN WRITERS AT THE SIXTH WORLD FESTIVAL OF YOUTH AND STUDENTS
Author(s) -
Е. Ю. Колобов
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
voprosy literatury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 0042-8795
DOI - 10.31425/0042-8795-2018-4-215-229
Subject(s) - compendium , soviet union , state (computer science) , political science , event (particle physics) , history , media studies , visual arts , sociology , law , politics , art , archaeology , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
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.