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| | LEON TROTSKY Literature and Revolution Chapter 1 Pre-Revolutionary Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Before even a tremor of revolutionary presentiment could pass through Russian literature at the end of the last century and the beginning of this, history had to produce the deepest changes in the basis of economics, in land tenure, in social relations, and in the feelings of the masses. |
 | | Literature after October, 1917, wished to pretend that nothing especial had happened and that this period in general did not concern it. |
 | | The gem of this literature of renunciation, of this literature of discarded thoughts and feelings, is the fat, well-meaning almanac "Streletz", where poems, articles and letters by Sologub, Rozanov, Belenson, Kuzmin, Hollerbakh and others, are printed and to the quantity of three hundred numbered copies. |
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