The Ideological Struggle and Literature Quotes

“In the final analysis, truth will always triumph in mankind’s historical progress. Soviet literature’s strength lies in the fact that it offers the world the truth about Soviet man, the Soviet way of life, and communism.”
― Albert Belyaev, The Ideological Struggle and Literature: A Critical Analysis of the Writings of US Sovietologists

“Of course, Soviet war literature shows all the profound suffering and privation caused by the perfidious attack on the Soviet Union by the nazi war machine. Reading about the privations of their motherland inspired the hearts of Soviet soldiers with a thirst for vengeance and fired them with hate for the nazi beast. But to reduce Soviet war literature to the single common denominator of suffering and privation is to impoverish it, to rob it of its ideological and political ring, and consciously to belittle its active influence in fostering the heroism of the Soviet soldier.”
― Albert Belyaev, The Ideological Struggle and Literature: A Critical Analysis of the Writings of US Sovietologists

“The purpose of the literature of the bourgeois world is to divert art from society's most vital problems and from actively participating in the solution of social questions to the musty little world of solitude and helplessness, to spiritually disarm man and to make him submissive and afraid of himself.”
― Albert Belyaev, The Ideological Struggle and Literature: A Critical Analysis of the Writings of US Sovietologists