The Perception of Bolshevik Revolution in the View of Two Symbolist Poets: Alexander Blok and Andrei Bely
2020
Abstract
This paper deals with the period following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in relation to the lives of symbolist poets A. A.
Blok and A. Bely.
Both poets' sociopolitical views, as well as their reactions to the revolutionary events in Russia are discussed. Their key writings of that era, i. e. poems The Twelve and Christ has risen, respectively, are comparatively analyzed for a more thorough understanding of the two poets' perception of the processes in the Russian society of that period.