ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis became truly fashionable in Russia after the revolution of 1917, as many writers of the time have attested. Literary figures of the 1920s often reasoned in simplified psychoanalytic terms. According to Alexei Voronsky, the leader of the Pereval movement, "The revolution pushed to the fore new heroes with a particular mindset, with particular conscious and unconscious emotions." The political elite became more and more acutely aware of a sense of impasse, which compelled them to search for new ideas. In May-June 1922, the Russian Psychoanalytic Society was forming in Moscow. The organization's charter is kept in the files of the Main Scientific Directorate of the ministry of education. In 1923, the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, under the editorship of Ernest Jones, published information on the work of the Kazan Psychoanalytic Society. One unique aspect of the situation in Russia was the unusual closeness of Soviet psychoanalysts to the highest echelons of power.
