Depends on how much we relax the definition. For example even H. G. Wells, Jack London, Aldous Huxley and I think Douglas Adams were some kind of socialists. Charles Dickens was at the very least a social democrat.
In terms of explicit Communists you'd find quite a lot of Russian ones post and pre-revolution:Maxim Gorky, Alexandr Bogdanov, Arkady Gaidar, Alexandr Zamyatin, Mikhail Zoshenko and my fave Vladimir Mayakovsky, among many others. In terms of children's literature the Soviet writers Samuil Marshak and Korney Chukovsky, and the one and only Gianni Rodari from Italy (seriously if you have kids have them read his stories and short novels).
The great Rabindranath Tagore also had at the very least communist sympathies and highly praised Soviet society (especially in terms of education and child care) after his visit to the USSR.
Here's also a helpful Wikipedia entry:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_literature
That would be news to me considering his close friendship with Lenin, his material support to the Bolsheviks pre revolution and being the most celebrated Soviet author while alive. There are rumours he was poisoned by Stalin and some evidence to suggest at least a mild personal antipathy toward Stalin on Gorky's behalf, but unless the entirety of Bolshevism=Stalin that's neither here nor there. Oh and do check out the hilarious Ilf & Petrov and Yuri Olesha (not sure if there are English translations of Olesha though) even if their communist credentials are shaky.
Depends on how much we relax the definition. For example even H. G. Wells, Jack London, Aldous Huxley and I think Douglas Adams were some kind of socialists. Charles Dickens was at the very least a social democrat.
In terms of explicit Communists you'd find quite a lot of Russian ones post and pre-revolution:Maxim Gorky, Alexandr Bogdanov, Arkady Gaidar, Alexandr Zamyatin, Mikhail Zoshenko and my fave Vladimir Mayakovsky, among many others. In terms of children's literature the Soviet writers Samuil Marshak and Korney Chukovsky, and the one and only Gianni Rodari from Italy (seriously if you have kids have them read his stories and short novels).
The great Rabindranath Tagore also had at the very least communist sympathies and highly praised Soviet society (especially in terms of education and child care) after his visit to the USSR.
Here's also a helpful Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_literature
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That would be news to me considering his close friendship with Lenin, his material support to the Bolsheviks pre revolution and being the most celebrated Soviet author while alive. There are rumours he was poisoned by Stalin and some evidence to suggest at least a mild personal antipathy toward Stalin on Gorky's behalf, but unless the entirety of Bolshevism=Stalin that's neither here nor there. Oh and do check out the hilarious Ilf & Petrov and Yuri Olesha (not sure if there are English translations of Olesha though) even if their communist credentials are shaky.