The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-28

aspect.
On the other hand the character of
prose is such that the material and
the personalities must rest to be
portrayed in literature.
THE peasants of Russia who are
4 more static, till the soil in sum-
mer and warm months and lie on the
ovens most of the time in winter,
and speak out wonderful words Of
wisdom are mostly portrayed in the
present day Soviet Russian literature.
The landscape of the peasant is the
field, and the forest and the lake.
And his life streams with color and
tune. The worker is occupied in the
big city; eight hours day he works
in the factory, eight hours a day he
sleeps and eight hours a day he
moves the wheels of the revolution.
The artist sees him in his mobile
moments and is almost unable to get
a hold of his inner life and moods and
ideals.
But the worker is portrayed in the
new Soviet Russian literature to a
certain degree, but this may be called
only preparations and efforts for the
great novel and drama that will have
to be written and brought out in the
Russian new literature.
The spirit of the new Russian liter
ature may be divided in two parts:
the first is the portrayal of the first
steps of the revolution and of the
years of famine and suffering and
attacks that Soviet Russia went thru.
A. Navikov Briboi pictures in his
novels how peasants went to confis-
cate the property of a biglandowner.
cate the property of big landowner
the cellar, so they went down and be-
came drunk, pushed each other, beat
each other, hung on to the ceiling to
get next to the whiskey and then took
all the belongings away to their
homes put fire to the remainder. But
from the big city came the artillery
men--a son Of the village red army
soldier and heard the signs at night
and said: mot the landowners pro
perty is burning, but Soviet Russia is
on fire." A peculiar personality is
brought out-one peasant Holiday
covered with rags. stood and looked
on. He liked to see the peasants
carrying the belongings of the land.
owner but he didn't take anything
himself. He remarked: "They suffer
ed enough, they were cheated enough.
so at least once they repaid with
revenge" His wife pushed him on
to participate in the affair but he
said: Il want to be poor, am one of
the people" Another of his stories
pictures soldier arriving from the
army, with Jewels and money and
keeping himself aloof from the entire
population. OF course he was in the
white army and he despised "the
teacher" and shed suspicion on his
wife and his own parents. He was
entirely stranger to everybody and
he had to disappear from the scene
OF life. The village would not tolerate
such personality in its midst.
! OEVOLOD IvanoE is one of the most
~ popular writer's of present day
Soviet Russia. He gives us the entire
tragedy that the revolution went thru
in its fight against the many, many
enemies that we're confronted in the
far away corners of Soviet Russia.
He even pictures to us how a provin-
cial city among the Kirghiz went thru
the first days Of the revolution. The
contractor who held in his grasp the
entire population could not under
stand what is happening. A steamer
came along, landed a Soviet. It occu-
pied his house. 1t brot change in the
life of the city. Workers marched
thru the streets like the most impor-
tant personalities. The Kirghiz popu-
lation showed opposition to every
rule of the church and of the en-
ployers. For the life of him he cannot
| grasp what it means. But the cosacks
are expected. They will fight this new
people. And Of course he is with the