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Stalinist values by David hoffmann.
Other parts of the chapter basically says the time and energy wasted on individualist bourgeois bustin decadence is time better spent learning to work for the better of the collective.
TL:DR - Nutting is counter-revolutionary. :volcel-vanguard: .
It tracks for me, the 30s saw more than a little bit of reactionary social politics. This is the period when abortion and homosexuality would get re-criminalized.
Why did reactionary social politics creep into the USSR at that time? It seems like it started off good during Lenin's time.
It's a topic I should do more reading on, but the feeling I get is that it was a backlash to the highly progressive currents of the 20s. It affected nearly everything - the Soviet Union had some of the first schools for the blind and deaf, then some of them got shut down. There were women's work programs, then they got replaced with "traditional family" propaganda. Stalin is undoubtedly the source for some of it, but he was also the head of a huge and popular movement so he can't be solely blamed.
Also the bulk of the population, rural peasants, weren't exactly the same as the forward-looking avant-garde artists from the city, sadly.