Literary and cultural life in Soviet times

Foreword

Linguistic discourse of Stalinism

Environment and heredity

Depiction of the oil shale industry in Looming magazine between 1940 and 1956

“The man can see! Can write!”

The Stalin Prize as a tool for the Sovietization of literary life on the example on Hans Leberecht

The literary nomenklatura of Soviet Estonia

CC ECP nomenklatura and the managers of literary life in the Soviet Republic

Party control over Soviet Estonian literary life in the 1960s on the example of the Writers’ Union

Literary consultants at the Writers’ Union of the Estonian SSR as gatekeepers

Kaarel Ird and Vanemuine in the context of Soviet cultural policy

Ridiculous and uncomfortable: Women philologists in late Soviet Estonian culture

Human being as a natural body

The perceptual worlds of Estonian literature from the 1960s to the 1980s

Early foreign travel of Soviet Estonian writers during the Khrushchev Thaw in the context of national security policy

1960 Estonian Song Festival as a source of unity and division between Estonian communities home and abroad

Literary education in Soviet schools

A masterful taming of times

Sirje Olesk. Aegade lugu. Kirjanike liit Eesti NSV-s. Tallinn: Eesti Kirjanike Liit, 2022. 303 lk.

A limited perspective on the Writers' Union in the Estonian SSR

Sirje Olesk. Aegade lugu. Kirjanike liit Eesti NSV-s. Tallinn: Eesti Kirjanike Liit, 2022. 303 lk.