ABSTRACT
The first phase of the European War brought the entire Russian nation together. Court scandals, Rasputinism, administrative incompetence, corruption, official hostility towards the Provincial Councils or zemstvo organizations and lack of faith in the integrity of Russia's allies, all this contributed to the revolution of 1917. The world was slow to realize the tremendous significance of the revolution. The first few years of revolutionary struggle were too hectic to leave much time for literary activities. It was slow to see that the upheaval itself had not been imported from outside, but was due to inner causes, some of them rooted in the entire Russian history. Revolution and civil war offered countless themes which were eagerly seized upon by the younger writers. The revolution and civil war were responsible for a number of documentary works, to begin with those of Boris Pilnyak, Dmitry Furmanov, Vsevolod Ivanov, Isaac Babel, Konstantin Fedin, and Leonid Leonov.
