ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses few words about some of those writers who scrutinized Soviet life from the angle of ethical problems, but in the light of the new communist conscience. The communist writer, Yury Libedinsky, took up social and ethical problems of Soviet life, but in connection with the communist party. One of the most discussed early Soviet novels was V. Gladkov's The Cement. A novel about a common Soviet woman, who abandons the standardized code of values in order to serve the new constructive life of her country, is Virineya, by Lydia Seifullina. There were two phases in particular which left a strong mark on literature. One was the N.E.P. period, and the other the first Five-Year Plan, inaugurated by Stalin in 1929. Both offered plenty of material - it all depended on how the writers approached and used it. Some of them entirely identified their aims with those of the Bolshevists, whom they supported with enthusiasm.
