Съветския

Freed from the postulates of comparativity, the problem of the reception of a particular literary work in one or several national literatures naturally took one of the leading places in the interests of contemporary Marxist literary scholars. It could not be otherwise. After Marxism-Leninism permeated and enriched literary studies with its methodology and thereby turned it into an objective science, it became clear that the history of any national literature can be scientifically correctly presented and aesthetically truthfully revealed only when it is studied in connection with the history of other countries and peoples and their literatures, when the mutual connections and influences are clarified. Why? Because nothing else but the general, similar laws of historical development, which for each people (and each historical period) have their own, specific features, are the basis on which a given literary trend and influence grows and develops. This dependence was established by G. V. Plekhanov, who wrote that the influence of a given literature from one country on the literature of another is directly proportional to the similarity of the social relations of these countries.