Valeria Briusov: from vital and creative ideas (“zhiznetvorchestvo”) to recreating reality and the creative personality in the spirit of Bolshevism

Kling OlegA.,

Doctor of Philologiy (D. Habil.), Professor,

Chair Department of theory of literature Faculty of Philology,

Lomonosov Moscow State University

E-mail: okling@yandex.ru

But we don’t need to blame Briusov and other symbolists for all the deadly sins almost including the very fact of the October revolution. In fact, the Bolsheviks started by destroying symbolism as poetic school, and their transformation of culture went far beyond Symbolist ideas on the creation of life. After all, it is not the fault of the Russian Symbolists that their idea to create a new creative personality took a turn for the destruction of this very personality in the U.S.S.R.

Keywords: Briusov, symbolists, ideas on the creation of life, creative personality, bolsheviks.

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