The Revolutionary Poetry of the Thirties

The literary historian who would undertake a more fundamental examination of the development and significance of proletarian and anti-fascist poetry in the thirties of our century will be confronted with a number of unexplained problems and contradictions in the work of individual poets, as well as - on the other hand - with the great revolutionary upsurge of this poetry, with its contribution to the revolutionary education of the new generation in the midst of the great historical events that were brewing. It is necessary, first of all, to clarify the driving forces of the era that led humanity to the Second World War. The rise of Italian fascism and German Nazism, the strengthening of the reactionary course in Europe,