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Most of the significant works of Russian literature of the 1920s deal in a direct way with contemporary events. As we have seen, there was a brief period when dramatists wrote about revolutions in other countries or about historical events rather than about Soviet reality, but for the most part writers tackled the events of 1917 and succeeding years in an unmediated way.
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E. Zamyatin, Ogni svyatogo Dominika. Obshchestvo pochetnykh zvonarey ( Würzburg: Jal reprint, 1973 ) p. 10.
A. Shane, The Life and Works of Evgenij Zamjatin ( Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968 ) pp. 138–9.
Bulgakov, The Crimson Island in E. Proffer (ed.), The Early Plays of Mikhail Bulgakov, p. 241.
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Russell, R. (1988). Indirect Social Comment. In: Russian Drama of the Revolutionary Period. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09721-0_8
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