Bøker av David Pike

Traces the evolution of interrelated political and literary theoretical currents in the Soviet Union from the early 1930s to the late 1940s and places the writings of Georg Lukacs and Bertolt Brecht within that context. The link between the two men lies in their practice of viewing reality through the prism of a rigid political dogma.

German Writers in Soviet Exile, 1933-1945

This text examines the political, ideological, and cultural policies pursued by the German Communist of Socialist Unity party, acting upon the instructions of Stalin and his military administration, in Soviet-occupied Germany from 1945 through 1949.