Russian philology
Mayakovsky was instrumental in producing a new type
of poetry in which politics played a major part.
In the 1930s Socialist realism became the predominant trend in Russia. Its leading figure was
Maxim Gorky, who laid the foundations of this style with his works The Mother and his play
The Enemies (both 1906). His autobiographical trilogy describes his journey from the poor of
society to the development of his political consciousness. His novel The Artamanov Business
(1925) and his play Egor Bulyshov (1932) depict the decay and inevitable downfall of
Russia's ruling classes. Gorky defined socialist realism as the "realism of people who are
rebuilding the world," and points out that it looks at the past "from the heights of the future's
goals". Gorky considered the main task of writers to help in the development of the new man
in socialist society. Gorky's version of a heroic revolutionary is Pavel Vlasov from the novel
annaabi.ee 
