ABSTRACT
The change in the social pattern achieved by Soviet Russia involved a change in the trend and spirit of literature. The two salient aspects of the old intelligentsia literature, social idealism on the one hand, and interest in the human soul on the other, have both been preserved. The first has found an active application on a scale never dreamed of before. But the second is affirming itself, thus keeping the continuity in this direction. Interesting attempts have been made to restore, through literature, even certain features of historical continuity. One thing is sure: with all its ups and downs, Soviet literature has broken new ground. Conscious of its social task and its responsibility before life as a whole, it strives to integrate all the creative elements of the present and the past for the sake of a better future. Thus one can arrive at that socialist realism which was launched, in 1932, as the literary current of Soviet Russia.
