[Classics] Literature and Revolution Index [Classics] Literature and Revolution Introduction Pre-Revolutionary Art The Literary “Fellow-Travellers” of the Revolution Alexander Blok Futurism The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism Proletarian Culture and Proletarian Communist Policy Toward Art Revolutionary and Socialist Art All Pages 1917 Leon Trotsky The Soviet Union after the revolution Art Books Art Marxist Classics Page 1 of 10Originally published by Trotsky in 1924 these essays constitute a significant contribution to the then ongoing debate in the USSR over culture and art in a Workers State. It foreshadowed a later debate over the Stalinist conception of “Socialist Realism” in the later part of the decade. This book was suppressed by the bureaucracy after Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1928. Next