1923. Odets writes in his introduction that the brutal censorship
imposed upon the great Russian Empire of Gogol's time by its feudal
lords and masters is comparable in our time to only that imposed
upon the peoples of certain Fascist states. Enlightenment was not
then a word to utter lightly on a muddy street corner. But Gogol
set out to enlighten the Russian people, and his method was
curiously simple. Of his central character Tchitchikov, in Dead
Souls he states, Him I have taken as a type to show forth the vices
and failings, rather than the merits and virtues, of the
commonplace Russian individual; and the characters which revolve
around him have also been selected for the purpose of demonstrating
our national weaknesses and shortcomings.
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