Lenin's death caused quite a stir in China.

At this time, Sun Zhongshan had a good relationship with the Soviet Union, and the two sides were in cooperative relations, and he also sent a delegation to the Soviet Union to visit and study.

The Soviet Union provided Sun Zhongshan with financial and weapon support, and sponsored 2 million rubles to support Sun Zhongshan's Northern Expedition.

The Whampoa Military Academy, which was to be established in Guangzhou, also had the participation of the Soviet Union, and Soviet military advisers served as instructors of the Whampoa Military Academy, thus resolving various difficulties in the early days of the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy.

For those who believed in Marxism, Lenin was their example.

In 1917, the October Revolution brought Marxism to China.

It was under the leadership of Lenin that the Soviet Union successfully carried out the revolution and established the world's first socialist state.

Some people think that this is another way for China to develop in addition to learning from the West, and there is a successful precedent.

As a result, after the news of Lenin's death reached China, many newspapers appeared in memory and introduced Lenin, and a number of progressive groups in Shanghai launched mourning activities.

They are also preparing to hold a memorial rally.

However, this is not the mainstream of Chinese society, and its influence in the concession is not great, and Western society has a wary attitude towards the Soviet Union, and the diplomatic power of the Beiyang government has always been held hostage by Western countries.

It was not until May 1924 that the Beiyang government established formal diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

Shanghai University also launched a memorial campaign, for which Ding Ling and her classmates participated in the tribute to Lenin, and also distributed leaflets on the streets to carry out propaganda.

She invited Lin Zixuan to participate, but Lin Zixuan thought about it and didn't go.

Actually, in this day and age. It was nothing to participate in the commemoration of Lenin, but he felt that he was not very familiar with Lenin, and there was no need to join in the fun.

He remembered Soviet literature, which had become popular for a while in later generations.

Lin Zixuan once watched "How Steel is Made" and was deeply impressed by the heroine Tonya.

Most of the Soviet literature of this period was mainly about the October Revolution, full of revolutionary romanticism, showing the firm conviction and optimism of the revolutionaries. has produced quite a few excellent novels.

But there are also apolitical literary groups that preach apolitically inclined aesthetics, extolling the "greatness" of their own people's past eras, and advocating the "pure beauty" of ancient languages and poetic forms.

Of course, these people are a bit out of place.

From the perspective of later generations, only literary works that truly reflect social reality will have long-term vitality, and those novels that praise virtue will be forgotten sooner or later.

Lin Zixuan was impressed by a novel called "Doctor Zhivago".

This is an autobiographical novel written by Pasternak in 1956.

Pasternak, during the creation of Doctor Zhivago, said: "I wanted to provide in it a historical picture of Russia for the last 45 years. ”

Through the experiences of the October Revolution and the Civil War, the author portrays an honest and upright old Russian intellectual, but with extremely contradictory ideas.

The main line of the novel is the life history of Zhivago.

He was both a doctor. He is also a poet and thinker, whose activities, words, and thoughts form the backbone of his work.

And he himself wrote or expressed what he saw, heard, felt and thought in the form of poems and notes.

The novel depicts the mistakes and tragic scenes caused by revolutionary violence, and shows the intricate social relations and the heavy price paid by society during the revolutionary period in a more profound and multifaceted way.

Therefore, the novel was banned in the USSR.

It was smuggled out of the country by an Italian publisher in 1957 and distributed in Russian in Milan.

The following year, it was published in Italian and English, and it was very popular in the West, winning the author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958.

There is also a copy of "The Silent Don". He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.

The author, Sholokhov, shows the suffering of the Cossacks of the Don region, a unique group of Russian society, during the First World War, the February and October Revolutions, and the Civil War, between 1912 and 1922.

However, the author was criticized by many Soviet literary critics as a "dissident" and "a fellow traveler of Bourgeois". He was preaching "kulak ideas."

Sholokhov is recognized by the two worlds of the East and the West, which are ideologically opposed.

He is also the only writer to have won both the Stalin Prize for Literature and the Nobel Prize for Literature, which is unique in the history of Soviet Russian literature.

This may have something to do with the fact that he sided with the mainstream ideology of the Soviet Union at every important period.

Interestingly, these Soviet writers who won the Nobel Prize for Literature have all clashed.

In 1958, Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The USSR reacted strongly to this, and the USSR Writers' Union expelled Pasternak. It was only after he reviewed and refused to accept the prize that his membership was reinstated.

Sholokhov once made a statement in which he said: "Doctor Zhivago is undoubtedly anti-Soviet, and the expulsion of a man from the writers' association is not to embarrass him financially, but to stimulate his conscience." ”

At the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers, held in May 1967, writers of different tendencies debated.

In a letter to the General Assembly, the famous writer Solzhenitsyn raised the issue of freedom of the press.

Sholokhov's political attitude towards some young writers. In particular, he was annoyed by calls for "freedom of the press" and considered these writers to be "dissidents".

He declared: Solzhenitsyn had been in prison, had not withstood the rigors of the trials, had gone mad, and could not allow such a person to write.

Solzhenitsyn countered that "The Quiet Don" was plagiarized by Sholokhov from someone else's work.

Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Writers' Association in 1968 for publishing his work The First Circle abroad because it could not be published in China, and subsequently won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

He was expelled from the country in 1976 for publishing his magnum opus about totalitarianism, The Gulag Archipelago, which was included in Russian secondary school textbooks.

For Lin Zixuan, Soviet literature was both familiar and strange to him.

In later generations, he studied Gorky's works when he was in school, and the prose poem "Haiyan" was like thunder.

"Let the storm come harder!"

Few people in later generations did not know this sentence, and Soviet novels could also be read, but they always felt a bit estranged.

Perhaps it was because the Soviet Union had collapsed and become a thing of the past in his time, and most people would only be nostalgic for the past, and then gradually forget it over time.

The era that belonged to the USSR is over.

But in 1924, when the glory of the Soviet Union had just begun, Soviet literature was just beginning, Gorky completed his autobiographical trilogy, and Soviet literature bloomed into a new life under the wave of revolution.

However, Lin Zixuan felt like the literature of another world. (To be continued.) )