Taming Literature is one of those rare texts, to be counted on the fingers of one hand, which was written in Georgia’s Soviet period, was circulated illegally and was not, and could not be published because of the censorship. This book tells us with melancholy humor how the Soviet state went about restricting literature and art in an ideological framework, how the Communist party tried to use writers and artists to shape ‘the new man’ and, in order to further their own ideological goals, how the ‘engineers of the human soul’, i.e. writers, operated, how Soviet power ‘tamed’ literature.