From War to Peace: The Literary Life of Georgia after the Second World War
Keywords:
literature and ideology, Georgian literature, World War II, Khrushchev Thaw, Soviet UnionAbstract
After the Second World War, political changes occurred in the Soviet Union. In 1953 Joseph Stalin – originally Georgian and the incarnate symbol of the country – died, and soon the much-talked-about Twentieth Assembly of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union headed by Nikita Khrushchev followed in 1956. In Georgia, Khrushchev’s speech against Stalin was followed by serious political unrest that ended with the tragic events of March 9th, 1956. It is still unclear whether this was a political event or demonstration of insulted national pride. Soon after that, the Khrushchev Thaw (Russian: Ottepel) occurred throughout the Soviet Union. The literary process during the Thaw yielded quite a different picture compared to the previous decades of Soviet life. Under the conditions of political liberalization, various tendencies were noticed in Georgian literary space: on the one hand, there was an obvious nostalgia for Stalin, and on the other hand there was the growth of a specific model of Neo-Realism and, of no less importance, the rise of women’s writing.References
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