Russian philology
various medals. His novel The Rout deals with the partisan struggle in Russia's Far East
during the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Fadeyev described the theme of this novel as
one of a revolution significantly transforming the masses. The novel's protagonist Levinson is
a Bolshevik revolutionary who has a high level of political consciousness. The novel The
Young Guard, which received the State Prize of the USSR in 1946, focuses on an
underground Komsomol group in Krasnodon, Ukraine and their struggle against the fascist
occupation.
The first years of the Soviet regime were marked by the proliferation of avant-garde literature
groups. One of the most important was the Oberiu movement that included the most famous
Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms, Konstantin Vaginov, Alexander Vvedensky and Nikolay
Zabolotsky. Other famous authors experimenting with language were novelists Yuri Olesha
and Andrei Platonov and short story writers Isaak Babel and Mikhail Zoshchenko
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