Culture Of People's Democracy, The: Hungarian Essays On Literature, Art, And Democratic Transition, 1945-1948

György Lukács, 1885-1971, was one of the twentieth century’s most influential Marxist philosophers and literary critics.Tyrus Miller: Ph.D. (1994), Stanford University, is Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of books and articles on twentieth-century culture including Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars (University of California Press, 1999) and Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern University Press, 2009)

• Editor’s IntroductionAcknowledgementsLiterature and Democracy (1947)Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Democracy and CultureChapter 3: Lenin and the Question of CultureChapter 4: Literature and Democracy IChapter 5: Literature and Democracy IIChapter 6: Populist Writers in the BalanceChapter 7: Poetry of the PartyChapter 8: Free or Directed Art?Chapter 9: Against Old and New LegendsChapter 10: The Unity of Hungarian LiteratureSupplementary Related Essays, 1947–8Chapter 11: The Tasks of Marxist Philosophy in New Democracy (1947)Chapter 12: On Proletcult and Kitsch (1947)Chapter 13: Hungarian Theories of Abstract Art (1947)Chapter 14: The Hungarian Communist Party and Hungarian Culture (1948)Chapter 15: The Revision of Hungarian Literary History (1948)Historical and Biographical GlossaryReferencesIndex