1905. aasta revolutsioonikirjanduse kaks näidet: „Wõitluse päiwil” ja „Edasi. Tööliste jõulualbum”
Two Examples of Revolutionary Literature From 1905: “In Times of Struggle” and “Forward: Workers’ Christmas Album”

Summary/Abstract: This article compares two literary albums published amid the upheavals of the 1905 Revolution: “In Times of Struggle” (Wõitluse päiwil), issued by the Young Estonia (Noor-Eesti) movement, and “Forward: Workers’ Christmas Album” (Edasi. Tööliste jõulualbum), a collection compiled by working-class authors. The study examines the ways in which subjectivity and voice are employed to articulate revolutionary ideas. Alongside struggle and resistance, Estonian revolutionary literature at the turn of the 20th century was also marked by an ambivalence between individual and collective self-definition. How do these two albums reflect the era’s impulse towards transformation through personal and social experience, and through processes of self-definition? The textual analysis focuses on poetic and narrative techniques, contrasting the workers’ literature’s rejection of formal constraints and emphasis on storytelling with Young Estonia’s rejection of convention and experimentation with literary form.

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