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| | Socialist Realism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Experimental and non-conformist writers such as Yevgeni Zamyatin, Isaac Babel, Boris Pilnyak, Nickolai Tikhonov, Mikhail Slonimski, Vsevolod Ivanov, Victor Serge, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Yesenin, Konstantin Fedin, Victor Shklovsky, Mikhail Zoshchenko and Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered under this policy. |
 | | Zamyatin and Serge managed to leave the country, whereas Mayakovsky and Yesenin committed suicide. |
 | | Writers who refused to change, such as Babel and Pilnyak, were executed or died in labour camps. |
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