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Czech literary fund is plentiful in testimonies about the Russian Revolution. In many cases, these literary works have been written by direct participants (or, at the very least, witnesses) of events in revolutionary Russia. One of these participants was Josef Kopta (1894–1962), a writer that joined the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia. His novel, The Third Company (1924), has enjoyed a widespread publicity, as evidenced by the sheer amount of editions published. Based on this, we can presume that Kopta’s work has influenced the very discourse of understanding the Russian Revolution in inter- war Czechoslovakia and its society and, mainly, solidified the collective memory of members of the Legion. Using latest narratological approaches, this study aims to demonstrate the possibilities of analysing narrative texts from or about the Legions, the focus of this study being the depiction of the Russian Revolution as understood by characters and the narrator of Kopta’s novel. Furthermore, this study also hopes to draw attention to the numerous unexplored eye-witness testimonies about the events in revolutionary Russia present in Czech literary works.
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Artykuł analizuje dwie fazy recepcji Rewolucji Październikowej w twórczości JOHANNESA R.BECHERA. Podstawą są dwie wersje dramatu Arbeiter Bauern Soldaten, pierwsza z roku 1919, druga z roku 1924. Okres pierwszy charakteryzuje się w światopoglądzie BECHERA rewolucyjnym entuzjazmem. Wówczas ideologii komunistycznej wtóruje charakterystyczny dla ekspresjonizmu patos przebudzenia i przełomu. Kilka lat później można dostrzec, że tematowi Rewolucji Październikowej paradoksalnie towarzyszą konotacje autobiograficzne przy jednoczesnym wzmocnieniu argumentacji na rzecz procesu kolektywizacji.
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The article examines two phases in JOHANNES R. BECHER’S response to the Russian Revolution and its aesthetic consequences, by looking at the two versions of his play Arbeiter Bauern Soldaten (Workers Peasants Soldiers; 1919/1924). In the first phase, BECHER expresses his enthusiasm for the revolution and combines communist ideology with the expressionistic pathos of awakening into a new and groundbreaking future. In the second phase, the topic of the Russian Revolution is, paradoxically, more autobiographically-shaped, and it is accompanied by stronger arguments in support of collectivism.
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Der Artikel untersucht die zwei Phasen der ästhetischen Rezeption der Russischen Revolution bei JOHANNES R. BECHER anhand der zwei Fassungen des Dramas Arbeiter Bauern Soldaten von 1919 bzw. 1924. In der ersten Phase, BECHERS unmittelbarer Revolutionsbegeisterung, tritt die kommunistische Ideologie an die Seite des expressionistischen Aufbruchspathos, dem sie eine Richtung verleiht. In der zweiten Phase nimmt die Auseinandersetzung mit der Russischen Revolution paradoxerweise stark autobiographische Züge an – obwohl BECHER gleichzeitig das Moment des Kollektivismus argumentativ stärkt.
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