Russian Revolution through the Prism of Srečko Kosovel’s World View and His Poetry

The article deals with the influence of the Russian Revolution as evidenced in Srečko Kosovel’s intellectual and poetic creativity. Multifaceted and complicated, this influence includes socio- critical, cultural-reflexive, aesthetic and poetological aspects. Of key importance is Kosovel’s preoccupation with the crisis of humanity in the historical situation of Europe and of the world in general after the end of the First World War, which affected both individual and community, both worker and nation. While the Russian revolution undoubtedly led Kosovel to believe that the world could become more humane, he cannot be considered a ‘believer of the revolution’ in the sense of adherence to revolutionary ideology. In his view, the role of creating a ‘New Humanity’ definitely belonged to art.