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hw (1857-1867) ‘stood
or the emancipation of
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(i proken.” And final-
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asses, forwarding the
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frst there were the
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“ these revolutionaries
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GEists gave rise to Her-
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Lenin Traced Roots Of Art To

The People

up the struggle, broadened,
strengthened and hardened it.
The fighters were drawn from
wider circles and their ties
with the people grew closer.
“Young pilots of the coming
storm,’ Herzen called them;
‘but as yet the storm itself had
not broken. =

“The storm came when the
masses themselves were set in
motion. The proletariat, the
only thoroughly revolutionary
class, rose at their head, and
for the first ime stirred the
peasant millions to open revo-
jutionary revolt.-The first start
of the storm was in 1905 ”

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Lenin considered Gorky a
representative in literature of
the “storm,’”? this mass move-
ment; and unquestionably, “the
greatest representative.”

It is impossible to read with-
out emotion the pages showing

his wise, touching solicitude
for the best writer on, and
champion of the Russian popu-
lar revolt.

This is how Gorky describes
his first meeting with Lenin,
which took place soon after
Gorky finished writing his nov-
el “Mother.” “, , 4 a bald-
headed, stocky, sturdy person,
speaking with a guttural roll
of his “r’s” and holding my
hand in one of his, while with
the other he wiped a forehead
which might have belonged to
Socrates, and he beamed af-
fectionately at. me with his
strangely bright eyes. He be-
gan at once to speak about the
defects of my book ‘Mother’—
he had‘ read it in the manu-
seript which was in the pos-
session of I. P. Ladizhnikov. I
was hurrying to finish ‘the

book, I said, but did not have

Continued

with a nod of assent himself
gave the explanations. Yes, I
should hurry up with it; such
a book is needed, for many of
the workers who take part in
the revolutionary movement do
so unconsciously, and chaotic-

ically, and it would be very
useful for them to _ read
‘Mother’.”’

Thinking of drawing Gorky
into the work of the literary
section -of the journal ‘‘The
Proletarian,’ Lenin wrote to
Anatole Lunacharsky: “That’s
just what I’ve been dreaming
of doing, of making the liter-
ary and critical section of ‘The
Proletarian’ permanent and
handing it over to A. M. (Alex-
ei Maximovich Gorki.—H. S&.).
But I was afraid, terribly
afraid to suggest it, as I don’t

-know the kind of work A. M.

is doing, or how much _ he’s

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engaged on a big, serious work,
and if taking up his time with

trifles, newspaper work and
journalism is going to inter--
fere with it, it would be

stupid and criminal to disturb
him and distract him. I under-
stand and feel this very well
... You’re on the spot and can
judge better. . If you think
that we won’t harm A. Ms
work by harnessing him to
regular party work (and what

_an enormous gain ‘it will be

for party work), then try to
arrange it.”

Gorky in fact participated in
the work of ‘the newspaper
“The Star” in which were pub-
lished his Italian tales, which
Lenin called “splendid.”

Speaking of the value of
Russian literature in spiritu-
ally uniting the peoples of our

country, Lenin wanted every-
one who called Russia his
homeland to know: the lan-

guage of Turgenev and Tol-
stoy. ’

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. the language of, Tur-
genev, Tolstoy, Dobrolyubov
and Cherynshevsky is great
and powerful. We want. ..
the closest possible intercourse
and most fraternal unity to be
established among. the  op-
pressed classes of all nations
inhabiting Russia without’ ex-
ception. And it stands to rea-
son that we stand for every.
inhabitant of Russia having ~
the opportunity to learn tke
great Russian tongue.”

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We have already had occas-
ion to speak of Lenin’s know-
ledge of classical languages;
he knew modern European
languages — English, German
and French—no less well, and
had an excellent knowledge of
the literature written in these
languages.

In the album he kept in Si-
beria, along witn pictures of
the family and old convict-
revolutionaries, were pictures
of writers, as for instance,
Zola. In Lenin’s works we find
numerous references to the
works of Goethe, Dickens,
Hugo, London, Hauptmann,
Barbusse, Upton Sinclair and
many others.

What demands did Lenin
make of the culture and liter-
ature of the future? We shall
answer in his own words:

“Tt will be a free literature,
because neither greed nor car-
eerism, but the ideas of social-
ism and sympathy with the
working people will recruit
ever new forces into its ranks.
It will be a free literature, be-
ause it will serve not the sated
heroine nor the upper ‘ten
thousand,’ bored and burdened
with superfluous fat, but the
millions and tens of millions
of working folk, who constitute
the flower of the nation, its
strength and its future.”

In conclusion I should like to
give Joseph Stalin’s estimate
of Lenin as a representative of
science and culture, in the words
he hsed at the reception given
in the Kremlin to the workers
of the universities and insti-
tutes on May 17, 1938: “Lenin
was one of the leading lights
of that science . . . which has
the boldness and resolution to
break with old _ traditions,
norms and _ principles when
they have outlived their day
and begun to act as a brake
on progress: that science which
is able to create new traditions,
new norms and new _  prin-
ciples.”

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1945 _