"In the windbreak of Russian troubles..." Revolution and Russia’s fate in the literature of the 1920s
The article shows that the image of revolution in literature is not reducible to a specific socio-historical phenomenon. Revolution theme includes a complex of problems that worried the public during Peter The Great reforms. They were covered in the classics, acquired special acuity during the years of the revolution and Civil War. On the example of works of Soviet literature and Russian literature abroad, artists formed a general idea of the fate of Russia, the people and the individual in the situation of a historical “breakdown" and affirmed the moral priorities of being.