Not by Bread Alone
work by Dudintsev
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cultural policy of Khrushchev
- In Soviet Union: The cultural Thaw
…and Vladimir Dudintsev, whose novel Not by Bread Alone (1957) created great controversy with its depiction of a corrupt Soviet bureaucracy. The main reason behind the policy was Khrushchev’s desire to attack Stalin and Stalinism, but Khrushchev always underestimated the damage he was doing to the authority of the Party.
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