Culture of People's Democracy

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