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    The 1920s in Russia saw great experimentation in literature as writers responded to the Bolshevik revolution. The revolution had shattered previous literary cultures and sent many writers into exile. Those who remained found themselves subject to censorship and persecution if they did not support Bolshevik propaganda. Notable writers of the time included Isaac Babel, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Andrei Platonov, who produced lasting works like Red Cavalry and Chevengur. However, experimental groups like OBERIU and styles like formalism were eventually dissolved under political pressure as the Bolsheviks consolidated their control over literature.

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    The 1920s in Russia saw great experimentation in literature as writers responded to the Bolshevik revolution. The revolution had shattered previous literary cultures and sent many writers into exile. Those who remained found themselves subject to censorship and persecution if they did not support Bolshevik propaganda. Notable writers of the time included Isaac Babel, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Andrei Platonov, who produced lasting works like Red Cavalry and Chevengur. However, experimental groups like OBERIU and styles like formalism were eventually dissolved under political pressure as the Bolsheviks consolidated their control over literature.

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    The 1920s in Russia saw great experimentation in literature as writers responded to the Bolshevik revolution. The revolution had shattered previous literary cultures and sent many writers into exile. Those who remained found themselves subject to censorship and persecution if they did not support Bolshevik propaganda. Notable writers of the time included Isaac Babel, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Andrei Platonov, who produced lasting works like Red Cavalry and Chevengur. However, experimental groups like OBERIU and styles like formalism were eventually dissolved under political pressure as the Bolsheviks consolidated their control over literature.

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    Ieva Razbadauskaitė, IB2

    Literature in
    1920s Russia
    Outline
    • Key areas of
    change/experimentation
    • Reasons for the experimentation
    • Leading artists
    • How it was used as propaganda to
    support the bolshevik cause
    • Lasting/significant pieces of
    work
    • The Bolshevik reaction to the
    experimentation
    The key areas of
    change/experimentation
    • Within Russia the 1920s saw a
    wide diversity of literary trends
    and works, including those by
    mere “fellow travelers” of the
    Revolution.
    • The OPOJAZ group of literary critics, also
    known as Russian formalism, was founded in
    1916.

    • A modern literary genre, the dystopia, was


    invented by Yevgeny Zamyatin in his novel
    My (1924; We).
    Reasons for the
    experimentation
    • The Bolshevik seizure of power in
    1917 radically changed
    Russian literature. After a brief period
    of relative openness (compared to what
    followed) in the 1920s, literature
    became a tool of state propaganda.
    The Russian Revolution shattered the
    literary culture of Chekov and
    Tolstoy and sent hundreds of
    Russia’s greatest artists to death
    or exile.

    The writers who stayed in Russia


    found themselves persecuted for
    their freethinking.
    How literature was used as
    propaganda to support the
    bolshevik cause
    • Writers were called upon to be “engineers of
    human souls” helping to produce “the new
    Soviet man.”

    • Censorship, imprisonment in labour camps, and


    mass terror were only part of the problem.
    Leading writers
    • Isaac Babel

    • Mikhail Zoshchenko

    • Viktor Shlovsky

    • Yury Olesha

    • Andrei Platonov
    Lasting/significant pieces of work
    • Chevengur by Andrej Platonov

    • Three fat men by Yury Olesha

    • Envy by Yury Olesha

    • A Sentimental Journey by Viktor Shklovsky

    • Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel


    Bolshevik reaction to the
    experimentation
    • Oberiu movement: the group's actions were
    derided as "literary hooliganism (disruptive
    behaviour)".
    • Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel My (1924; We) could
    only be published abroad.
    • OPOJAZ: it was dissolved under political
    pressure as "formalism" came to be a
    political term of opprobrium in the Soviet
    state.
    Sources
    • https://theculturetrip.com/europe/russia/articles/how-lenin-and-the-russian-revol
    ution-changed-literature/

    • https://www.rbth.com/history/326638-russian-writers-quotes-1917-revolution

    • https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/25/lenin-love-literature-russian-revol
    ution-soviet-union-goethe

    • https://www.britannica.com/art/Russian-literature/Post-Revolutionary-literature

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