What is it about?
A re-reading of Japanese leftist writer Miyamoto Yuriko's writings from her time in the Soviet Union, 1928-1930.
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Why is it important?
The paper looks at the impact (or lack thereof) of state-orchestrated propaganda in early Soviet Russia and considers the larger importance of resistance through writing against authoritarian regime.
Perspectives
In our contemporary world, where bigotry and anti-globalist sentiments have led to a new rise of populist demagogue leaders, resistance through art is all the more salient. The two writers analyzed in this paper reacted completely differently to the efforts of early Soviet Union state-sponsored propaganda to convince them of the benefits of communism under Stalin's budding dictatorial regime.
Dr George T. Sipos
West University of Timisoara
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This page is a summary of: Journeys of Political Self-Discovery: The Writings of Miyamoto Yuriko and Panait Istrati from late 1920s Soviet Russia, Human and Social Studies, October 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/hssr-2018-0029.
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