Pervye gody sovetskoy vlasti - odin iz samykh protivorechivykh periodov v istorii Rossii. 1917 god polozhil nachalo moshchnomu protsessu smeny epokh, kotoryy potryas Rossiyu do osnovaniya, nalozhiv otpechatok ne tol"ko na masshtabnye sotsial"no-politicheskie protsessy, no i na sotsial"no-psikhologicheskie kharakteristiki obshchestva. V protsesse agitatsii i propagandy intelligentsiya, osobenno khudozhestvennaya, igrala ochen" vazhnuyu rol". Tsel" nastoyashchego issledovaniya – izuchit" obraz «staroy» khudozhestvennoy intelligentsii, kotoryy byl sformirovan bol"shevistskoy pressoy v pervoe desya-tiletie sovetskoy vlasti, i otvetit" na vopros,kak i pochemu intelligent prevratilsya "uchenogo mrakobesa".