RUSS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intelligentsia, Romantic Hero, House Of Romanov
11 Jan 2018
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Used him as a propaganda, an icon. Perfect example of how peasants can getting through difficulties and becoming someone. As a unique literary voice from the bottom stratum of society grows. Opposes the tsarist regime in his writing and own personal. Helped people and the party with his money. Bolsheviks seized power and established proletarian government, led by lenin. Supposed to be phrase between the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of communism. Against the extremes of the new regime. Saved russian intelligentsia by getting release orders personally from lenin. Lost his personal friend and realized that he couldn"t do anything about the system. To an old man any place that"s warm is homeland. Didn"t return back until 1928 when stalin invited him back to look at the new russia. During the soviet regime, every cities/towns have a streets or a building that were named after him. Pronounced as the founder of socialist realism.
