Abstract
<jats:p>The works included in the collective monograph explore the features of the literary process dating back to the era of the Russo-Japanese War and the Russian Revolution of 1905, in connection with the dominant cultural, historical, literary and social factors of this period. The studies are based on the intertwining of content and poetological relationships between catastrophic shifts in Russian society and the growth of new trends in literature, art, philosophy, artistic and scientific journalism. The contributors to this volume try to show how the war and the revolution brought a number of ideological and artistic innovations in the work of such different writers as Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Leonid Andreev, Korney Chukovsky, Skitalets (S.G. Petrov), Alexander Kuprin, Ivan Shmelev, Alexandra Mire (Moiseeva), Ivan Bunin and others. A number of studies are based on previously little-known printed and archival materials (letters, unpublished articles, early versions of literary texts, etc.). Two types of understanding of the Apocalypse (active and projective) are distinguished: the latter is determined by the active and creative eschatology of N.F. Fedorov and V.S. Solovyov.</jats:p>