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A five page paper on this novel by Soviet novelist Yuri Olesha. The paper compares two of the characters, Babichev and Kavalerov, in terms of their political views and their significance to the human condition. Bibliography lists two sources.
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of nineteenth-century aristocracy and the working classes; another is between both groups and the intelligensia. He looks at the impact of what has come to be called the "October Revolution"
on Russian intellectuals, and manages to both criticize the status quo and support it in a way that allowed his work to escape censorship but still get its message across.
What was the October Revolution? According to historian Paul Johnson, it was an internal Russian event that occurred toward the end of the First World War. During the course of
the war, the Russian government had drafted huge numbers of peasants into the armed services, leaving their beleaguered families to man the farms, mines, and factories back at home. The
war proved to be a tremendous drain on resources, and the peasantry had more and more difficulty keeping up with the armys demands. In February of 1917, the garrison in
Petrograd was ordered to compel factory workers to increase their quotas, but the soldiers, realizing all too well that what the authorities had demanded was impossible, refused and mutinied. At
this same time, Lenin had been trying to drum up support for his Bolshevik party, one of whose platforms included opposition to the war. As Johnson observes, "It was at
this point that Lenins anti-war policy, by pure luck, proved itself inspired. [Lenin] knew nothing about the peasants; he had no idea what was going on in the countryside. But
by opposing the war he was opposing a policy which was bound to fail anyway, and [he was coincidentally] aligning his group with the popular peasant forces, both in the
villages and, more important, within the army" (Johnson, 61). It soon became apparent that Lenin held more potential power within his grasp than he could ever have dreamed. In October
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