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Bertolt Brecht: World
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Brecht's poetry, with its broad and comprehensive social content, is a rich and faithful chronicle of his time. It covers great social events over thirty years, including the First and Second World Wars, and comprises more than 1,500 poems, collected by him in several volumes.
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Brecht was ... a Communist. This has led to numerous attempts by the mainstream art world to degrade his legacy - either by claiming that his plays are worthless Stalinist propaganda, or by claiming that they are worthwhile despite the politics.
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The period of his sojourn in Berlin was very important for Brecht's life. Here he deepened his knowledge of Marxism, of the proletarian world outlook. He followed and studied at close hand the life of the working class, its powerful movements and, in general, the pulse of current events.
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