RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism2312-92202312-9247Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2694710.22363/2312-9220-2021-26-2-311-316Review ArticleThe “Big Twenties” in the History of Russian Literature of the 20th Century: to the Сentenary of the Magazine Krasnaya NovOvcharenkoAlexey Yu.<p>D.Sc. (Philology), Associate Professor, Department of Russian Language, Institute of Law, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Associate Professor, Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.</p>ovctharenko-1959@yandex.ruPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)0207202126231131602072021Copyright © 2021, Ovcharenko A.Y.2021<p style="text-align: justify;">The review article presents various views on the periodization of Russian literature in the 1920s and 1930s and provides arguments in favor of new, refined approaches to the boundaries of the period. Particularly noteworthy are the works of those authors who point to the need for an expanded understanding of the twenties. The concept of the Big Twenties is of particular value in connection with the centenary of the magazine Krasnaya Nov , which made a significant contribution to the literary process of that time.</p>Russian literature1920-1930shistorical and literary processstages of the literary movementperiodizationрусская литература1920-1930-е годыисторико-литературный процессэтапы литературного движенияпериодизация[Hobsbaum, Je. (2004). The age of extremes: The short twentieth century, 1914–1991 (pp. 15–21). Moscow, Nezavisimaja gazeta Publ. (In Russ.)][Lvov-Rogachevskij, V.L. (1925). A book for reading on the history of modern Russian literature. Workers’ and peasants’ creativity for 30 years (p. 2). Leningrad: Priboj Publ. (In Russ.)][Polonskij, V.P. (1929). Essays on the literary movement of the revolutionary era (p. VII). Moscow, Leningrad, Gosizdat Publ. (In Russ.)][Kogan, P.S. (1927). Literature of the great decade (p. 8). Moscow, Leningrad, Moskovskij rabochij Publ. (In Russ.)][Voronskij, A.K. (1927). The decade of October and our literature. The Power of the Soviets for 10 Years (pp. 172–176). Lenigrad, Krasnaya Gazeta Publ. (In Russ.)][Keldysh, V.A. (2010). Literature of the Silver Age as a complex integrity. About the Silver Age of Russian Literature: General Laws. Problems of Prose (pp. 18–19). Moscow, IWL RAS. (In Russ.)][The history of Soviet Russian literature (pp. 12–13). (1975). Moscow, Prosveshhenie Publ. (In Russ.)][The history of Russian literature of the twentieth century (20–50s): The literary process (p. 26). (2006). Мoscow, MSU. (In Russ.)][Problems of periodization of the Post-October Russian literature. (2012). Russian Literature of the Twentieth Century: 1917–1920s (p. 26). Moscow, Akademija Publ. (In Russ.)][Jakobson, R.O. (2000). From my memories. The World of Velimir Khlebnikov. Articles and Research (p. 86). Moscow, Jazyki russkoj kul'tury Publ. (In Russ.)][Zajceva, I. (2010). Concepts of the literary process in Soviet criticism. In Search of a New Ideology: Sociocultural Aspects of the Russian Literary Process of the 1920–1930s (p. 231). Moscow, IWL RAS. (In Russ.)]