From pre-revolutionary to Soviet literature -- Literary developments: from the revolution to World War II (1917-39) -- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) -- Sergey Yesenin (1895-1925) -- Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) -- Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895-1958) -- Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-) -- Isaac Babel (1894-1941) -- Boris Pilnyak (1894-?) -- Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) -- Yury Olesha (1899-1960) -- Leonid Leonov (1899-) -- Mikhail Prishvin (1873-1954) -- Alexey Tolstoy (1883-1945) -- Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-) -- Literary developments: World War II and after (1939-62) -- Konstantin Paustovsky (1892-) -- Vera Panova (1905-) -- Alexander Tvardovsky (1910-) -- Valentin Ovechkin (1904-) -- Victor Nekrasov (1910-) -- Vladimir Didintsev (1918-) -- Three young writers : Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Yury Nagibin, Yury Kazakov.