Profitability of Literature: On Hack-Writers and Their Customers in the Discourse of Soviet Satire and Literary Criticism in the Second Half of the 1920s – The First Half of the 1930s

Abstract

The results of the analysis of works of Soviet satire and literary criticism of the second half of the 1920s - the first half of the 1930s are presented in this article. Strategies of players of different scale on the field of literature are shown; the main types of writers are reconstructed. Possible reasons for the publication of low-quality literary products have been identified.

Keywords

• hack-writers
• ideological conditions
• sovietsatire
• soviet literary criticism
• literary process of the 1920s – the 1930s.