A widening world : a discussion of the social attitudes and social problems of young people in Soviet literature, 1957-1963

Abstract

During the period of Khrushchev's power there was a considerable amount of writing and discussion about young people, their attitudes and problems. This interest in the situation and attitudes of the young spread over several dominant themes, and since, in most cases, the prose dealing with this subject contained a great deal of critical comment, often of matters that had hitherto been excluded from discussion, it drew upon itself the fire of orthodox literary critics and officialdom. There was a tendency to see the writing which fell into this category as an illustration of the 'conflict of generations', and' certainly, in at least two of the principal themes, that of de-Stalinisation and that of meshchanstvo, it did appear as if there was a division along generation lines among the characters portrayed. Show more