![]() But when the young poet, Tikhonov, without writing about the Revolution, writes about a little grocery store (he seems to be shy about writing of the Revolution), he perceives and reproduces its inertia and immobility with such fresh and passionate power as only a poet created by the dynamics of a new epoch can do. And when he applies it to events of the greatest magnitude, it serves only as a cruel reminder that Yasnaya Polyana has been and is no more. He belongs to the peaceful Yasnaya Polyana school, only his scale is infinitely smaller and his point of view narrower. ![]() Alexey Tolstoi, in his The Road to Calvary, describes the period of the War and the Revolution. These are phenomena which quite evidently belong, or could belong, in entirely different planes. ![]() ![]() WHEN one speaks of revolutionary art, two kinds of artistic phenomena are meant: the works whose themes reflect the Revolution, and the works which are not connected with the Revolution in theme, but are thoroughly imbued with it, and are Colored by the new consciousness arising out of the Revolution. Revolutionary and Socialist Art Greater Dynamics Under Socialism – The “Realism” of Revolutionary Art – Soviet Comedy – Old and New Tragedy – Arts Technique and Nature – The Reshaping of Man Leon Trotsky: Literature and Revolution (8. ![]()
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