Word: turgenieff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their schooling and urged on by government efforts, Soviet writers may soon have ready a whole new literature. This new culture is being built even before the old is entirely destroyed, so that at least the memory of the old may be compared with the products of the new. Turgenieff and Tchekhov are to be superseded by new authors; and they, in aiming at first-group ranking, need only take as a model this line from a recent Russian poet: "I feel a great desire to spit at the moon through the window...