<Li> <P> Osip Mandelstam </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Sergei Yesenin </P> </Li> <P> With the victory of Russia's Revolution, Mayakovsky worked on interpreting the facts of the new reality . His works, such as "Ode to the Revolution" and "Left March" (both 1918), brought innovations to poetry . In "Left March", Mayakovsky calls for a struggle against the enemies of the Russian Revolution . The poem "150,000,000" discusses the leading played by the masses in the revolution . In the poem "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1924), Mayakovsky looks at the life and work at the leader of Russia's revolution and depicts them against a broad historical background . In the poem "It's Good", Mayakovsky writes about socialist society being the "springtime of humanity". Mayakovsky was instrumental in producing a new type of poetry in which politics played a major part . </P> <P> In the 1930s Socialist realism became the predominant trend in Russia . Its leading figure was Maxim Gorky, who laid the foundations of this style with his works The Mother and his play The Enemies (both 1906). His autobiographical trilogy describes his journey from the poor of society to the development of his political consciousness . His novel The Artamanov Business (1925) and his play Egor Bulyshov (1932) depict the decay and inevitable downfall of Russia's ruling classes . Gorky defined socialist realism as the "realism of people who are rebuilding the world," and points out that it looks at the past "from the heights of the future's goals". Gorky considered the main task of writers to help in the development of the new man in socialist society . Gorky's version of a heroic revolutionary is Pavel Vlasov from the novel The Mother, who displays selflessness and compassion for the working poor, as well as discipline and dedication . Gorky's works were significant for the development of literature in Russia and became influential in many parts of the world . </P>

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