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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