Pilnyak, Boris
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Naked Year (1921, tr. 1928), a loosely constructed work concerning the social chaos following the Revolution of 1917. He accepted the revolution itself, but did not embrace orthodox Communism. His short novel Mahogany, denied publication in the USSR, was first published in Berlin in 1929. Later Pilnyak...1930, tr. 1931). Both were severely criticized by the Soviet regime as bourgeois. In 1931, Pilnyak visited the United States and attacked American industrialization in OKei (1932). Some of his short stories have been translated in Tales...