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They started using various tricks and tropes so that their fictional universes could resemble the soviet life as convincingly as possible..
Georgian Hero of the Soviet Era Against the Universe: Science Fiction as a Nation’s Coping Mechanism
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32, NO. 1 (F ALL 2018), 75-92 DOI: 10.14324/111.0954-6839.087 Georgian Hero of the Soviet Era Against the Universe: Science Fiction as a Nation’s Coping Mechanism K ETEVAN CHARTOLANI Free University of Tbilisi INTRODUCTION When in 1934 the First Congress of Soviet Writers canonized socialist realism as the only permitted and acceptable literary mode of the Soviet Union, the event marked a decisive shift in the development of Georgian culture, in general, and its literary tradition, in particular.
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From this day on, a writer’s only mission was to become a mouthpiece of the Communist Party. Officially, this meant complying with two directives: 1) a socialist realist text had to faithfully depict the contemporary reality 2) and this –reality was to be positive.
These two demands were mutually exclusive in the years of forced collectivization that brought severe outbreaks of