History of Russian Literature in the 20th Century

Author: Zhang Jie
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Publish Date: 1998-11-01
Features: The 20th-century Russian literature underwent an extremely complex development path. Most writers, due to the great social changes, experienced varying degrees of changes in their political thought and artistic thinking, and many of their works were filled with contradictions. As a comprehensive history of 20th-century Russian literature, this book strives to correct past biases, objectively and comprehensively describe its development trajectory, restore history to its original form, and make correct and realistic evaluations of every literary event, every writer, and their works. While affirming the dominant position of socialist literature, this book also gives objective evaluations and due status to other literary schools. In the early 20th century, modern Russian literature, under the complex historical conditions of turbulent changes, exhibited a multipolar phenomenon. With the rise of modernist literature, the Russian literary world entered a pattern where realism and modernism coexisted. On the side of realism, first and foremost, a group of renowned elderly writers were still alive, continuing to focus on the tragic reality of their homeland while intensifying their critique of this social reality.