| 5 | AUTHOR’S PREFACE |
| Chapter 1 | |
| 9 | The Revolution and Literature |
| Chapter 2 | |
| 13 | Problems of Inherited Traditions |
| Chapter 3 | |
| 22 | Russian Literature After the October Revolution |
| Chapter 4 | |
| 38 | Lenin on the Principle of Partisanship in Literature. Traditions of the Russian Classics |
| Chapter 5 | |
| 49 | Maxim Gorky |
| Chapter 6 | |
| 58 | Mayakovsky |
| Chapter 7 | |
| 67 | Yesenin |
| Chapter 8 | |
| 74 | The 1920s. Emergence of the New Prose |
| Chapter 9 | |
| 86 | Fadeyev |
| Chapter 10 | |
| 97 | Alexei Tolstoi |
| Chapter 11 | |
| 110 | Pasternak |
| Chapter 12 | |
| 118 | Fedin |
| Chapter 13 | |
| 125 | The 1930s. The Modern Hero. Nikolai Ostrovsky |
| Chapter 14 | |
| 146 | The War Against Fascism and Soviet Literature |
| Chapter 15 | |
| 151 | Poets. The Problem of the Generations |
| Chapter 16 | |
| 172 | Pogodin and Other Dramatists |
| Chapter 17 | |
| 180 | Leonov |
| Chapter 18 | |
| 188 | Ehrenburg |
| Chapter 19 | |
| 194 | Paustovsky |
| Chapter 20 | |
| 200 | Sholokhov |
| Chapter 21 | |
| 210 | The New in Soviet Literature |
| Chapter 32 | |
| 233 | Problems of National Literatures The Literary Map of the U.S.S.R. |
| Chapter 23 | |
| 250 | What the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. Are Giving Russian Literature |
| Chapter 24 | |
| 266 | Literature of the Future |
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