A

acting in daily life, 54–57. See also Ketman

Aesthetic Ketman, 64–69

aesthetic pleasure, 65

Alpha (alias for an Eastern European writer), 82–110

anti-Semitism, opponent of, 85, 89

appearance, 82–83

Catholic, 84–85, 87, 92

character, 83, 87, 90, 101, 104–105, 110

fame, 82, 86

first novel, 83, 84, 85–86

leader of writers, 88–89, 107

loyalty ethic, 91–92, 94

nationalism, opponent of, 89

Party writer, 91–92, 102–107, 109

right-winger, 82–83, 85

satirist of intellectuals, 93–94, 105

self-critic, 108–109

wartime experiences, 94, 97, 101

Americans. See United States, Americans

Aragon, Louis, 153

art

creativity and the wave of the future, 217–218

ethical double standards, 238

formalism, 8, 15, 74

"metaphysical residue," 73

smooth slope compared to, 129

subjectivity, 215–216

as a substitute for religion, 8

See also poetry; socialist realism

Auschwitz, 90, 114

Aztecs, 227

B

Baltic States

German invasion, 229

history to 1940, 225–227

incorporation into Soviet Union, 167, 245–246

kulaks in, destruction of, 231–233

Russian occupation, 227–231, 240, 242

voting and passport stamping combined, 228

See also Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania

Balzac, Honoré de, 66

Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, 66

beards, growth of, 50

Bernanos, Georges, 85

Beta (alias for an Eastern European writer), 111–134

appearance, 111, 129

character, 111, 112–113, 115, 117, 124, 126–127, 129

concentration camps, depiction of, 115–123, 125–126, 129

concentration camps, prisoner in, 114–115, 123

in Germany, 115, 123

Marxist sympathizer, 124

novelist (The Stony World), 127–128

Party writer, 129–134

patriotism, questioner of, 112, 114

poet, 113–114

Poland, returnee to, 125

suicide, 134

biting dogs categorized, 77

Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 47

Brecht, Berthold, 56

C

capitalism

disbelief in in people's democracies, 39–40

as force weakening religion, 206

pursuit of in people's democracies, 192–193

Catholicism, Catholics

Catholic writers, 84, 85, 87

faith, 198

in pre-WW2 Poland, 84–85

See also Christianity, Christians [on this page]; religion

the Center. See Russia, Russians

Central Europe. See people's democracies

Chaplin, Charlie, 26

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon, 82

Christianity, Christians

crimes committed centuries ago, 224

in people's democracies, 208–209, 210–212

Stalinism compared to, 208–209, 233–234

in the West, 212

See also Catholicism, Catholics [on this page]; religion

cities: in people's democracies, 66–67

Communism, Communists

in Poland, 92–93, 99–100, 104, 147–148, 152

political parties (see the Party)

Russian disdain for others, 152

United States compared to, 36

Communism, Communists (continued)

Western compared to people's democracies, 235–236

Western disdained in people's democracies, 20

concentration camps

as depicted in socialist realism, 126

ethics in, 123

life in, 115–122

Conrad, Joseph, 83

consciousness, enslavement through, 191

cosmopolitanism, 43–44, 46–48

Cracow, 162

creativity, creative process

eliminating spontaneity in, 189

and wave of the future, 217–218

Crimean Tatars, 242

crimes against humanity, past and present regarded differently, 223–225, 250

Czechoslovakia, 68, 226

D

Dachau, 115

Dante, 81

decorative arts, 68

Delta (alias for an Eastern European writer), 174–190

alcoholic, 176–177

anti-Semite, 181, 182

appearance, 175–176

character, 176

An Elegy on the Death of a Butterfly Run Over by a Freight Van, 189

The End of the World, 179

fame, 182

family origins, 176

Folk Fair, 180

Green Goose, 187

hoaxer, 176, 178

linguist, 176

Little Songs of the Chief of the Office of Graves, 178

nationalist, 181

Party writer, 186–190

poet, 177–180, 185, 189

Poland, returnee to, 185–186

prisoner of war in Germany, 182–183

Solomon's Ball, 180

traveler in the West, 185

wife of, 186

Denmark, 226

dialectical materialism

as anesthetic preparing one for Stalinism, 220

contradictions in, 49–50

See also Stalinism

diamat. See dialectical materialism [on this page]

Dostoevski, Fyodor, 240

drama, in Poland, 47