The Revolution: Voloshin as the Poet of Russia
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Year: 2015

Voloshin's most popular postrevolutionary poems formed the book Deaf and Dumb Demons (Демоны глухонемые, 1919). This book, and later poems that belong to it thematically, interpret the Bolshevik Revolution through the Symbolist and Neo-Slavophile Russian Idea, redefining Russian identity and history and offering continuity between the pre- and post-revolutionary Russian self-identification. The poems in Deaf and Dumb Demons are unified aesthetically by a poetic language that was unusual for Volo