Russian modernism in early XX century

Abstract

At the end of the nineteenth century Russian literature and society went through a great upheaval that culminated in the Communist Revolution. Powerful ideas launched by Marx, Schopenhauer, Freud, Nietzsche reverberated through Russian society and literature and challenged long etablished political and moral values. Russian society became increasingly fragmented amid the political unrest and moral uncertainty. In this tumultuos and heady period from the 1890s to the early 1930s literature and art again expressed the rebellious search for meaning.