Motifs of Apocalypse in I. S. Shmelev's novel “Sun of the dead”
Journal: Philological Class
Year: 2022

The article investigates the novel by Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev “The Sun of the Dead” (1923), dedicated to the Civil War in Russia as one of the most critical periods in Russian history. The text of the work, considered by the authors of the article to be an expression of “a story told”, thematizes, for example, the relationship between the Bolsheviks and the Church, the purposeful destruction of the intelligentsia, the use of hunger as a tool of the population control, the barbaric treatment of t