Editing Socialist realism (section)

==== The Union of Soviet Writers (USW) ====
The creation of [[Union of Soviet Writers]] was partially initiated by [[Maxim Gorky]] to unite the Soviet writers of different methods, such as the "proletarian" writers (such as [[Fyodor Panfyorov]]), praised by the Communist Party, and the ''poputchicks'' (such as [[Boris Pasternak]] and [[Andrei Bely]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://voplit.ru/article/nado-prekoslovit-m-gorkij-i-sozdanie-soyuza-pisatelej/|title = 'Надо прекословить!' М. Горький и создание Союза писателей}}</ref> In August 1934, the union held its first congress where Gorky said:
{{blockquote|The Writers' Union is not being created merely for the purpose of bodily uniting all artists of the pen, but so that professional unification may enable them to comprehend their corporate strength, to define with all possible clarity their varied tendencies, creative activity, guiding principles, and harmoniously to merge all aims in that unity which is guiding all the creative working energies of the country.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1934-2/writers-congress/writers-congress-texts/gorky-on-soviet-literature/|title=Gorky on Soviet Literature|date=August 15, 2015|website=Seventeen Moments in Soviet History}}</ref>}}

One of the most famous authors during this time was [[Alexander Fadeyev (writer)|Alexander Fadeyev]]. Fadeyev was a close personal friend of Stalin and called Stalin "one of the greatest humanists the world has ever seen."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bennett |first1=James |title=Subsidizing Culture: Taxpayer Enrichment of the Creative Class |date=2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=New York |isbn=9781351487726 |page=98 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSwrDwAAQBAJ |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref> His most famous works include ''The Rout'' and ''[[The Young Guard (novel)|The Young Guard]]''.