A poetess from this nation wrote "Poem Without a Hero" and Requiem.
The first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature from this country wrote "The Gentleman from San Francisco." A poetess from this nation wrote "Poem Without a Hero" and Requiem. A novel set in this country alternates between the story of Pontius Pilate and the story of Berlioz, who is killed by Woland in the book's opening chapter. A novelist from this nation was forced to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize after his novel about Lara and Yuri was printed in France. This country's socialist realism was pioneered by Maxim Gorky. The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich are set in, for 10 points, what Communist nation which no longer exists?
The first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature from this country wrote "The Gentleman from San Francisco."
Soviet Union [or USSR; or United Soviet Socialist Republics; prompt on "Russia"]