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Model Of Inspired Service To Communism
In the nation-wide struggle to build communism, a big and important role is played by the Soviet people’s intell igentsia, and specifically the Soviet writers. With their best works our writers help to strengthen the unity of the people and educate the Soviet people in the communist spirit. The works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, our great Soviet writer, serve as a brilliant example of this. (Stormy applause.)
Mikhail Sholokhov is well known in our Country and abroad. His talented works have circled the globe and are published and read in every corner of the earth. In the Soviet Union alone his books have been published in nearly 30 million copies in 60 languages. In our Country it would now be difficult to find a family that does not have Sho.. lokhov’s works, which are read, reread, and discussed with affection and emotion, and which are a source of joy to people.
Our Party and the entire Soviet people hold Mikhail Sholokhov in high esteem as an outstanding man of lett ers who has dedicated his mighty gift to the great cause of building communism. (Prolonged applause.)
In his works Sholokhov depicts the most important, dec isive stages in the history of Soviet society. He portrays the epoch of the Civil War, the revolutionary upheaval in the countryside during collectivization, and the heroic feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War. Sholokhov’s works help the people to understand the historical signific ance of the great feats performed by our people under the leadership of their Communist Party.
Sholokhov’s works, full of profound devotion to the Party and the people, show with compelling conviction that the path travelled by our country was arduous and complex, but that it was the only right path to happiness for the whole people. (Stormy applause.)
It is the Communist Party that has always led our peop le along this Leninist path. And in Sholokhov’s works we find splendid Communists—leaders and organizers— who live at one with the people. Sholokhov is able, as no other man, to show the role of the Communist Party, which roused the people to the struggle for a new life and the development of the new man. He goes deep into the process which forms and develops the man who is getting rid of the survivals of his proprietary mentality. Sholokhov’s works are profoundly humane and imbued with a sincere affection for the working man. His humanism is revolutionary and socialist, and based on the recogn ition that the happiness of a people is won in struggle against its enemies. During the war Sholokhov wrote a story entitled “The Science of Hatred,” in which he brill iantly portrayed this idea of socialist humanism, showing that you could not vanquish the enemy unless you learned to hate him heart and soul.
All of Sholokhov’s works express the interests of the working people, the creators of the world’s material and spiritual values. His wonderful books are written with immense respect and sincere affection for the working man. They are aimed against those who want to obstruct peaceful constructive labour and plunge mankind into the abyss of new ordeals.
Remember “The Fate of a Man.” This story about the fate of Andrei Sokolov is not only a grim accusation of those responsible for the horrors of the Second World War, but also an impassioned protest against those who are today trying to start a new war, which threatens mankind with still greater horrors and sufferings.
The great impact of Sholokhov’s works lies in the fact that he has created images of the men of labour with great force, lucidity and feeling, and has shown the comp lex and profound spiritual world of the ordinary man.
Recently, we could see the characters we have grown fond of, from And Quiet Flows the Don and the excellent story entitled “The Fate of a Man,” on the screen. Sholok hov’s characters appear before us as living people and close friends. We see them, we know their characters and habits, we rejoice at their accomplishments and grieve over their errors. The writer succeeded in depicting the spiritual aspirations and portraying the inner world of his characters with depth and feeling.
Our Party has always devoted great attention to the development of literature and art; it regards the writers as its active and faithful helpers in the communist educat ion of the working people. Now that we have entered the stage of comprehe1s building Of Communism this role of art is particularlY enhanced. We are building commu. nism for the sake of man, and of his happiness. Man must come to comrnUnisfl’i free from proprietary habits, from egoism, selfintere5t— a word, free from all that hinders him from living in the communist fashion. It is important for Soviet literature not only to describe the accomplishm ents and deeds of people, but also to show the ideologic al sources of the heroism born in the struggle for the victory of communism.
Of late, the press has been broadly discussing the pa-i triotic example set by Valentina Gaganova, who left a good work-team and joined a backward one in order to raise it to front-rank level. What prompted her to do it? What were the motives of her noble act? It is impossible to understand this from the point of view of the old prop rietary psychology, since the young woman went to a more difficult section of the factory knowing that for some time she would earn lower wages. This is a splendid model of a high sense of civic duty. Such noble acts clearly and vividly show the spiritual essence of Soviet man. It is the job of our art to keenly and truthfully portray the birth of valorous feats and reveal the spiritual world of our contemporaries, their feelings, thoughts and aspirations.
In this respect, too, Mikhail Sholokhov’s works set a magnificent example. At the Second Congress of Writers SholokhOv said that the Party spirit of a Soviet artist is his profound convict ion in the righteousness of our cause. “Each of us writes according to the dictates of his heart, and our hearts belong to our Party and our people, whom we serve with our art.” It is this Party spirit inherent in ShOlOkh0”S works and his constant contact with the life of the people that shape the great impact of his writing. (StormY app lause.)
In a writer who adheres to Party positiOnS the Party spirit springs from his own convictions and moods. The interests of the Party and the writer’s thoughts coincide. If a writer is guided in his work and his thinking by the interest of the people among whom he lives, he will mirr or the life of society correctly.
Some say that writing from Party positions deprives the writer of his individuality and leads him into a rut. This may really happen if the writer does not write with a profound conviction that it is necessary to show the life of the people truthfully, if he is tirneserving. If the writer lives with the people and depicts the life and struggle of the people under the leadership of the Communist Party, the Party spirit becomes the logic and substance of his life and work. (Applause.)
What call does the Party make on men of letters? It calls on them to study and portray more deeply, more fully and more comprehensively the life and struggle of the Soviet people and their titanic labours aimed at buildi ng a communist society. In our socialist conditions the people and the Party are a single, inseparable whole.
Mikhail Sholokhov shows by all his endeavours that he is very exacting and that he has a highly developed sense of responsibility. He brooks no light-minded work or a superficial approach to it. In this respect he is loyal to the wonderful traditions of the great Russian writers of the past.
Mikhail Sholokhov is now in the flower of his powerful gift. This can be judged by the first part of his book They Fought for Their Country, the story “The Fate of a Man,” and the new chapters of his Virgin Soil Upturned recently published in Pravda.
Sholokhov has produced magnificent works of fiction. He made a good start, is doing well, and we are sure he will yet gratify people with splendid new works. (Applause.) As the saying goes, “Never do things by halves. ‘There is no need for haste, but don’t drag it out too long, either. The Soviet people have a good appetite for mental food and they expect from you, dear Comrade Sholokhov, as they also do from all writers, vivid and highly-artistic new books about our time. (Applause.)
How are we to say whether a writer has written much or little? This is not judged by the number of pages or books, but by the depth and force with which the works of a writer portray the many sided life and deeds of our people, the greatness of their struggle for comm unism.
It is a real joy, comrades, to live and work in our great epoch when such grand transformations are taking place, when over vast expanses of the earth men are reshaping their life along socialist lines. More than one-third of humanity is already living in a world where there is no exploitation of man by man, where men have abolished capitalism’s brutal law of “man is to man a wolf,” and now live by the principle that “man is to man a friend and brother,” where everything is designed to improve the life of man on earth. And in these great changes, men of lett ers play an important part. Our people and our Party highly appreciate the fact that at this wonderful time of great achievements Mikhail Sholokhov represents Soviet literature worthily, that he worthily depicts the feats of the Soviet people, and the heroism and selfless devotion of Soviet men to the cause of Lenin’s Party, which is reorganizing life on the basis of the immortal doctrine of Marxism-Leninism. (Stormy applause.)
Sholokhov is an outstanding artist, a talented and truthful annalist of our great epoch. Let us wish him new and great creative successes! (Stormy applause.)
Sholokhov’s works are arousing a lively interest in millions of foreign readers, who want to know the truth about the Soviet Union and Soviet man, and who want to know how the most humane social system—the sociali st system—was born and became firmly established through the heroic struggle of the people.
In recent years Sholokhov has travelled abroad repeate dly and with great benefit. He was received everywhere as a distinguished Soviet writer, as an envoy of Soviet culture.
You know that in the near future I am to visit the U.S.A. on the invitation of President Eisenhower. And it gives me pleasure to ask Mikhail Sholokhov to come with me on this trip. (Stormy applause.) I think it will do him good, too, to see the life of present-day America at closer range.
Mikhail Sholokhov is well known in our Country and abroad. His talented works have circled the globe and are published and read in every corner of the earth. In the Soviet Union alone his books have been published in nearly 30 million copies in 60 languages. In our Country it would now be difficult to find a family that does not have Sho.. lokhov’s works, which are read, reread, and discussed with affection and emotion, and which are a source of joy to people.
Our Party and the entire Soviet people hold Mikhail Sholokhov in high esteem as an outstanding man of lett ers who has dedicated his mighty gift to the great cause of building communism. (Prolonged applause.)
In his works Sholokhov depicts the most important, dec isive stages in the history of Soviet society. He portrays the epoch of the Civil War, the revolutionary upheaval in the countryside during collectivization, and the heroic feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War. Sholokhov’s works help the people to understand the historical signific ance of the great feats performed by our people under the leadership of their Communist Party.
Sholokhov’s works, full of profound devotion to the Party and the people, show with compelling conviction that the path travelled by our country was arduous and complex, but that it was the only right path to happiness for the whole people. (Stormy applause.)
It is the Communist Party that has always led our peop le along this Leninist path. And in Sholokhov’s works we find splendid Communists—leaders and organizers— who live at one with the people. Sholokhov is able, as no other man, to show the role of the Communist Party, which roused the people to the struggle for a new life and the development of the new man. He goes deep into the process which forms and develops the man who is getting rid of the survivals of his proprietary mentality. Sholokhov’s works are profoundly humane and imbued with a sincere affection for the working man. His humanism is revolutionary and socialist, and based on the recogn ition that the happiness of a people is won in struggle against its enemies. During the war Sholokhov wrote a story entitled “The Science of Hatred,” in which he brill iantly portrayed this idea of socialist humanism, showing that you could not vanquish the enemy unless you learned to hate him heart and soul.
All of Sholokhov’s works express the interests of the working people, the creators of the world’s material and spiritual values. His wonderful books are written with immense respect and sincere affection for the working man. They are aimed against those who want to obstruct peaceful constructive labour and plunge mankind into the abyss of new ordeals.
Remember “The Fate of a Man.” This story about the fate of Andrei Sokolov is not only a grim accusation of those responsible for the horrors of the Second World War, but also an impassioned protest against those who are today trying to start a new war, which threatens mankind with still greater horrors and sufferings.
The great impact of Sholokhov’s works lies in the fact that he has created images of the men of labour with great force, lucidity and feeling, and has shown the comp lex and profound spiritual world of the ordinary man.
Recently, we could see the characters we have grown fond of, from And Quiet Flows the Don and the excellent story entitled “The Fate of a Man,” on the screen. Sholok hov’s characters appear before us as living people and close friends. We see them, we know their characters and habits, we rejoice at their accomplishments and grieve over their errors. The writer succeeded in depicting the spiritual aspirations and portraying the inner world of his characters with depth and feeling.
Our Party has always devoted great attention to the development of literature and art; it regards the writers as its active and faithful helpers in the communist educat ion of the working people. Now that we have entered the stage of comprehe1s building Of Communism this role of art is particularlY enhanced. We are building commu. nism for the sake of man, and of his happiness. Man must come to comrnUnisfl’i free from proprietary habits, from egoism, selfintere5t— a word, free from all that hinders him from living in the communist fashion. It is important for Soviet literature not only to describe the accomplishm ents and deeds of people, but also to show the ideologic al sources of the heroism born in the struggle for the victory of communism.
Of late, the press has been broadly discussing the pa-i triotic example set by Valentina Gaganova, who left a good work-team and joined a backward one in order to raise it to front-rank level. What prompted her to do it? What were the motives of her noble act? It is impossible to understand this from the point of view of the old prop rietary psychology, since the young woman went to a more difficult section of the factory knowing that for some time she would earn lower wages. This is a splendid model of a high sense of civic duty. Such noble acts clearly and vividly show the spiritual essence of Soviet man. It is the job of our art to keenly and truthfully portray the birth of valorous feats and reveal the spiritual world of our contemporaries, their feelings, thoughts and aspirations.
In this respect, too, Mikhail Sholokhov’s works set a magnificent example. At the Second Congress of Writers SholokhOv said that the Party spirit of a Soviet artist is his profound convict ion in the righteousness of our cause. “Each of us writes according to the dictates of his heart, and our hearts belong to our Party and our people, whom we serve with our art.” It is this Party spirit inherent in ShOlOkh0”S works and his constant contact with the life of the people that shape the great impact of his writing. (StormY app lause.)
In a writer who adheres to Party positiOnS the Party spirit springs from his own convictions and moods. The interests of the Party and the writer’s thoughts coincide. If a writer is guided in his work and his thinking by the interest of the people among whom he lives, he will mirr or the life of society correctly.
Some say that writing from Party positions deprives the writer of his individuality and leads him into a rut. This may really happen if the writer does not write with a profound conviction that it is necessary to show the life of the people truthfully, if he is tirneserving. If the writer lives with the people and depicts the life and struggle of the people under the leadership of the Communist Party, the Party spirit becomes the logic and substance of his life and work. (Applause.)
What call does the Party make on men of letters? It calls on them to study and portray more deeply, more fully and more comprehensively the life and struggle of the Soviet people and their titanic labours aimed at buildi ng a communist society. In our socialist conditions the people and the Party are a single, inseparable whole.
Mikhail Sholokhov shows by all his endeavours that he is very exacting and that he has a highly developed sense of responsibility. He brooks no light-minded work or a superficial approach to it. In this respect he is loyal to the wonderful traditions of the great Russian writers of the past.
Mikhail Sholokhov is now in the flower of his powerful gift. This can be judged by the first part of his book They Fought for Their Country, the story “The Fate of a Man,” and the new chapters of his Virgin Soil Upturned recently published in Pravda.
Sholokhov has produced magnificent works of fiction. He made a good start, is doing well, and we are sure he will yet gratify people with splendid new works. (Applause.) As the saying goes, “Never do things by halves. ‘There is no need for haste, but don’t drag it out too long, either. The Soviet people have a good appetite for mental food and they expect from you, dear Comrade Sholokhov, as they also do from all writers, vivid and highly-artistic new books about our time. (Applause.)
How are we to say whether a writer has written much or little? This is not judged by the number of pages or books, but by the depth and force with which the works of a writer portray the many sided life and deeds of our people, the greatness of their struggle for comm unism.
It is a real joy, comrades, to live and work in our great epoch when such grand transformations are taking place, when over vast expanses of the earth men are reshaping their life along socialist lines. More than one-third of humanity is already living in a world where there is no exploitation of man by man, where men have abolished capitalism’s brutal law of “man is to man a wolf,” and now live by the principle that “man is to man a friend and brother,” where everything is designed to improve the life of man on earth. And in these great changes, men of lett ers play an important part. Our people and our Party highly appreciate the fact that at this wonderful time of great achievements Mikhail Sholokhov represents Soviet literature worthily, that he worthily depicts the feats of the Soviet people, and the heroism and selfless devotion of Soviet men to the cause of Lenin’s Party, which is reorganizing life on the basis of the immortal doctrine of Marxism-Leninism. (Stormy applause.)
Sholokhov is an outstanding artist, a talented and truthful annalist of our great epoch. Let us wish him new and great creative successes! (Stormy applause.)
Sholokhov’s works are arousing a lively interest in millions of foreign readers, who want to know the truth about the Soviet Union and Soviet man, and who want to know how the most humane social system—the sociali st system—was born and became firmly established through the heroic struggle of the people.
In recent years Sholokhov has travelled abroad repeate dly and with great benefit. He was received everywhere as a distinguished Soviet writer, as an envoy of Soviet culture.
You know that in the near future I am to visit the U.S.A. on the invitation of President Eisenhower. And it gives me pleasure to ask Mikhail Sholokhov to come with me on this trip. (Stormy applause.) I think it will do him good, too, to see the life of present-day America at closer range.
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