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| | Anna Tumarkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | As a result, the feuilleton, arguably the most popular satirical genre of the Soviet period, was officially limited to the role of ideological weapon in the struggle with “outside enemies” such as the bourgeois west, capitalism and religion or with remnants of Russia’s pre-revolutionary past, such as bureaucracy, illiteracy, alcoholism, etc. |
 | | Unlike fiction that allowed for almost unrestricted idealization of Soviet reality, in the feuilleton such idealization had to be negotiated with the truthful reflection of everyday life. |
 | | Such flexibility allowed the feuilleton to transcend its officially prescribed propagandistic function and, at least in the minds of its readers, become a unique way of social criticism. |
| aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2004/abstracts/tumarkin.htm (329 words) |
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