Krleža’s Talk about Brest-Litovsk (1918) as an Apologia for October Revolution or the Politics of Friendship Cover Image

Krležin razgovor o Brest-Litovsku (1918.) kao apologija Oktobra ili politike prijateljstva
Krleža’s Talk about Brest-Litovsk (1918) as an Apologia for October Revolution or the Politics of Friendship

Author(s): Suzana Marjanić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Croatian Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: Miroslav Krleža; Bygone Days; Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; the First World War; literary and political anthropology; the poltics of friendship;

Summary/Abstract: In this article we shall try to detect the Krleža’s antithetical carousel (to use Stanko Lasić’s term), according to the Peace of Brest-Litovsk with regard to Krleža’s polemical dispute Talk about Brest-Litovsk (1918). In fact, from the perspective of 1918, Krleža defined Brest-Litovsk (March 3, 1918) as the anticipation of “international solidarity of the proletariat European”, as a political maneuver pro futuro (DD2, 180). However, in the footnote of the text, written from the perspective of 1967, Krleža suggests, as a correction inter-astral own rhetoric, that “all Moscow illusion of general strikes in the field of central government, and particularly in Berlin” dissipated under the “terror soldiery” in February 1918, and “Leninist concept of peace of Brest-Litovsk was put in a hopeless street” (DD2, 188).

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 267-289
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Croatian