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Po završetku Oktobarske revolucije, pokret Proletkult i njegovih 400.000 registrovanih clanova, prognali su Antona Pavloviča Čehova i zabranili izvođenje njegovih delà na tek osnovanim scenama radnika i vojnika, Njihova optužba je glasila ovako - Čehovljeva delà su nastajala u buržoaskom okmženju te su, kao takva, mogla komunicirati iskljucivo sa buržoaskom publikom. A to je ocenjeno kao štetno po revoluciju. U stvari, i suprotno toj optužbi za klasnu pripadnost i nerazumevanje, Čehov je - bar od kad je bio na književno-sociološkom putovanju na ostrvo Sahalin, na kom je posetio zatvore, kolonije i ostale kaznene ustanove - bio izuzetno dobro upoznatsa pozicijom u kojoj se nalazila beda i sirotinja carske Rusije. U vešto napisanoj noveli Seljaci (1897) on opisuje proletariat Rusije - psuje i pije, grub je i neotesan, nepismen i neuk, gotovo „kao stoka". Za te Ijude je čak i nada u bolje sutra čist Luksuz. Na raznim mestima na Krimu, Čehov je napisao drame koje do danas dominiraju pozorisnim scenama kako Rusije tako i Nemačke. Sama delà su nastala u periodu tranzicije i prikazuju jednu zemlju čiji se razvoj, u iščekivanju promena,

After the October Revolution the new Proletkult movement with about 400.000 registered members ostracised Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and banned his texts from the newly founded worker's and soldier's stages. Their accusation: Chekhov wrote his texts in a bourgeois environment and could therefore exclusively address them to a bourgeois audience. This was deemed harmful to the revolution. As a matter of fact and contrary to such class liability Chekhov knew exactly - at the latest since his literary sociological journey to the penal colony of Sachalin - about the situation of the underprivileged, of the poorest of Tsarist Russia. In the astutely observed novella „Peasants", written in 1897, he presents the Russian proletariat: It swears, drinks, is rough and rugged, analphabetic and uneducated, almost „like cattle". Even the hope for a better life seems to be a luxury to these people. Among other places on the Krim, Chekhov wrote the dramas which until today in egual measure dominate the „bourgeois" theatre in Germany and in Russia, The texts themselves were created in a historical phase of transition and show a country.