Did I ever ask anything about suppression? In this thread anyway? The question was about "communism does not motivate" and you failed to answer that question.Originally Posted by joysof
Mandelstam paid for a poem with his life;[/quote:3b6tafj8][quote:3b6tafj8]How was creativity disallowed in the USSR?
If I remember correctly, his poem was highly anti-Soviet (using the terminology of that time), and that was explicitly forbidden. The criminal code had an article dealing with just that. Dura lex sed lex.
Hello? She left the USSR in 1925 and returned in 1939, and committed suicide in 1941. If she was not published during the two years (and what years!) she spent there, that hardly means anything.Tsvetaeva was forbidden to publish
Which plays were suppressed? His best work, which you apparently think was M&M, was never published -- but it was never finished either. He died editing it. Of the finished works, I personally prefer "The White Guards", and it was published, moreover, he made a play after it, and it was a success. Stalin himself liked it, could it be more successful than that in the thirties?Bulgakov had most of his plays suppressed and his best work wasn't published until long after his death.
Yeah, go ahead.If you want more examples, I'll provide them: there are hundreds, after all.
Granted. Unorthodoxy was not welcome (is it anywhere?). However, you're going off the tangent yourself. I responded to the message that linked creativity to economy, and that could not possibly mean creativity in poetry.Taken together, all of these things would seem to serve as a disincentive to unorthodoxy, and, tangentially, creativity.