Download or read book Inside the Soviet Writers' Union written by John Garrard and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USSR's Writer's Union, a form of cultural and political organization unknown in the West, has ruled every aspect of Russian writers' private and professional lives from the time of Stalin to the present day. This sophisticated and detailed study shows how the union has operated over the last five decades.