ABSTRACT
Literature has always served to reflect the interests of authors and to present opinions on all kinds of matters. Russian literature in particular has always been concerned with social, political, and philosophical questions, despite the fact that both under the Tsars and the Soviets, a controlled press and censorship of artistic literature have been the rule rather than the exception. Democritus posited a more precise relationship between man and nature. Building on the base of previous philosophers, Democritus taught that the cosmic order is divine and that insofar as man's internal life is kosmios, man shares in this divine order. Russian literature, in common with other vernacular literatures which have developed in the western world, has retained the influence of its classical patrimony. Industrialization was not to be disparaged because it helped the Soviet Union defeat the Germans in World War II.
