Intellectuals and Revolution

Author: Blok
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Publish Date: 2004-02-18
Features: This book collects a large number of outstanding prose works by the Russian writer Blok. Using the language of prose, he expresses his poetic reflections on Russian society and even the entire European civilization, uniquely revealing the views of the Silver Age in Russia and its literary figures on major issues such as social changes, cultural transformations, religious and philosophical thought, literary trends, and the characteristics of intellectuals in the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He meticulously describes the complex mentality of Russian intellectuals toward social and cultural revolutions, and objectively demonstrates the theoretical foundations and practical basis for the rise of the Symbolist movement.