FOLK-POETIC FOUNDATIONS OF PARTISAN CREATIVITY: GENRE FORMS IN FAR EASTERN POETRY DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND INTERVENTION

Abstract

The paper represents the first part of a large study undertaken, devoted to the analysis of one of the directions of poetry of 1917–1922 in the Far East of Russia – civilian lyrics. The history of the development of literature in the region undoubtedly expressed the general patterns of the literary process of that time. But, expressing general patterns, this process here was specific, peculiar. It proceeded in the conditions of a fierce war and prolonged foreign intervention, on the basis of the assimilation of Russian classics and contrary to the dogmas of “regionalism”. The ideological and thematic content of poetry during the revolution, civil war and intervention in the work is presented through an analysis of its genre and style diversity. It is considered on the example of the work of Konstantin Leontyevich Rosly (1898, village Peretino, Primorsky Territory – 1926, Ust-Olyutorka, Kamchatka). According to the recollections of eyewitnesses of that time, the popularity of the Far Eastern poet and commander, who is traditionally ranked among the representatives of partisan poetry, among the population of Primorye was extraordinary. The researcher comes to the conclusion that the genre variety of civilian poetry of those years is represented by slogans, agitations, appeals, military-historical, marching, patriotic songs. The analysis of the creative searches and experiments of K.L. Roslу complements this palette with the following genres: poems with elements of the tale, folk songs, chants, expectations, elegies, ditties, hymns, small satires, appeals, letters, wailing songs, obituary songs, requiems, ballads, etc. In this article, it became possible to consider only a number of the listed genre forms.