This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1940s. A huge range of writers are examined, and the analysis is made in the knowledge of the sometimes considerable pressure brought by the Government on writers in Soviet Russia. Links are made by the author between the writers being assessed, as well as to the Russian writers that had come before them. As a wide-ranging analysis of Soviet literature, this book has rarely been bettered.
1. Pre-Revolutionary Writers After 1924 1.1. Literature and the
Revolution 1.2. Bely 1.3. Gorky 1.4. A.N. Tolstoy 1.5. Ehrenburg 1.6.
Veresaev 1.7. Prishvin and Sergeyev-Tsensky 1.8. Zamyatin
2. Two
Revolutionary Romantics 2.1. Babel 2.2. Vsevolod Ivanov
3. The Revival of the
Novel 3.1. The Serapion Brothers 3.2. Fedin 3.3. Leonov 3.4. Kaverin 3.5.
Slonimsky and Savich 3.6. Lavrenev, Malyshkin and Lebedenko
4. Writers of
Everyday Life 4.1. Chroniclers of the Revolution 4.2. Seyfullina 4.3. Romanov
4.4. Lidin 4.5. Kataev 4.6. Zoshchenko 4.7. Ilf and Petrov 4.8. Levin and
some others
5. The Proletarian Writers 5.1. From the Proletkult to the Five
Year Plan and After 5.2. Gladkov 5.3. Panferov 5.4. Libedinsky 5.5. Fadeyev
5.6. Sholokhov 5.7. Malashkin and others
6. Yury Olesha and His Envy
7.
Literature of the Five-Year Plan
8. Counter-Revolutionary Tendencies in
Soviet Literature 8.1. The Neo-Bourgeois and Kulak Spirit in Literature
8.2. Zamyatins We 8.3. Pilnyaks Mahogany 8.4. Budantsevs Sufferings of
Mind 8.5. Bulgakov
9. The Historical Novel
10. The Poets 10.1. Decline of
Poetry 10.2. Mayakovsky and Esenin 10.3. Pasternak 10.4. Tikhonov 10.5.
Selvinsky and Constructivism 10.6. Bagritsky 10.7. Aseyev 10.8. Bezymensky
and Other Proletarian Poets 10.9. The Poets Prose: Mandelstam, Pasternak,
Tikhonov
11. The Drama
12. Literary Criticism and Literary Theories 12.1.
Formalism 12.2. Sociological Method
13. Government Policy in Matters of
Literature 13.1. From 1918 to the Five Year Plan 13.2. The Reform of 1932
and After
14. Latest Developments: Socialist Realism: Nationalism vs.
Westernism and Classicism vs. Modernism
Gleb Struve
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