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ლევ ტროცკი ლიტერატურასა და რევოლუციას შორის
Leon Trotsky Between Literature and Revolution

Author(s): Merab Ghaghanidze
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Russian Literature, Marxism, Theory of Literature
Published by: ლიტერატურის ინსტიტუტის გამომცემლობა
Keywords: literature; revolution; proletariat; eschatology;

Summary/Abstract: Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), one of the leaders of the Bolshevik coup of 1917 and the subsequent Soviet state, resting at the government cottage in the summer of 1922, when he was People’s Commissar of Military Affairs of the Russian Federative Socialist Republic, decided to edit his previously published articles on literature and to publish them as a single collection, but then he resolved to gradually expand and postpone its completion to the following summer, 1923: during this time the collection was reworked, expanded, filled with new material and soon after the end of the work, in the autumn of the same year 1923, published as a book, titled: “Literature and Revolution”. At that time, Trotsky already held the position of the People’s Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, although not only this circumstance caused the work of the famous Bolshevik to receive a wide response in the Soviet Union and various countries of the world. The collection of articles was soon translated into many languages and gradually published in almost every country. The book, in an abbreviated form, was also published in Georgia in 1926.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 162-181
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Georgian