Russian Literature Since the Revolution

Introduction Literature and the Political Problem

1. Since 1917 a Brief Historysoviet Literaturepersistence of the Pastfellow Travelersproletariansthe Stalinistssocialist Realismthe Thawthe Sixties and Seventies

2. Mayakovsky and the Left Front of Artthe Suicide Note"Vladimir Mayakovsky, a Tragedy"The Cloud"The Backbone Flute"The Commune and the Left Front"The Bedbug" and "The Bath"Mayakovsky As a Monumentpoets of Different Camps

3. Prophets of a Brave New Worldthe Machine and Englandolesha's Critique of the Reasonenvy and Rage

4. the Intellectuals, Iserapionsboris Pilnyak Biology and History

5. the Intellectuals, Iiisaac Babel Horror in a Minor Keykonstantin Fedin the Confrontation With Europeleonov and Katayevconclusion

6. the Proletarians, Ithe Proletcultthe Blacksmith Poetsyury Libedinsky Communists As Human Beingstarasov-Rodionov "Our Own Wives, Our Own Children"Dmitry Furmanov an Earnest Commissara. S. Serafimovich a Popular Saga

7. the Proletarians, Iif