1934. The first congress of writers

80 years ago, on August 17, 1934, the first All -Union Congress of Soviet Writers opened in Moscow. With a greeting from the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the secretary of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks turned to the congress Andrey Zhdanov. Characterizing Soviet literature, he said: “In our country, the main characters of a literary work are active builders of a new life: workers and workers, collective farmers and collective farmers, party members, business executives, engineers, Komsomol members, pioneers. Our literature is saturated with enthusiasm and heroics. It is optimistic, since it is the literature of the ascending class - our Soviet literature. Our Soviet literature. It is strong in that it serves the new business - the work of socialist construction ... to be engineers of human souls - this means actively fighting for the culture of the language, for the quality of works.