LITERARY PROCESS IN THE 1920S AND 1930S: THE FORMATION OF THE “NEW” LITERATURE AND THE CONCEPT OF PERSONALITY

Abstract

Thе article focuses on the formation of the new artistic method and the search for the concept of personality in Russian literature in the 1920s and 1930s. These issues are considered by means of works of F. Gladkov, M. Shaginyan, L. Leonov, A. Tolstoy and others. The specifics of the artistic aspect of socialist realism as well as its genesis nevertheless remained debatable. The concept of the personality of the new Soviet hero is based on the idea of “remaking” a person through joint work, which ultimately led to the leveling of man in the works of socialist realism. The author concludes that in the 20-30s of the twentieth century the main style and methodological landmarks of the “new” Soviet literature were defined: on the one hand, socialist literature itself, and on the other hand – realistic, continued the best traditions of Russian and world classics, which was not officially recognized by Soviet literature by the introduction of all the years of Soviet power. In the 1930s, officially approved literature finally became on an ideological platform and developed a single artistic method – socialist realism.