Literary sociology of revolution: paradoxical relationship between revolution and literature

What is the relationship between literature and revolution? Do literature help revolution or is it the other way around and revolution determines the literature? It seems there have been three stages in development of relationship between these two. In the first stage which is before the time that revolution stabilizes itself, the literature definitely assists the revolution and spreads the revolutionary slogans. When it comes to second stage, during the consolidation of the revolution, the revolutionaries denies independent literature. And finally, in third stage literature tries to departure to hidden transcript of society against the obstacle of political hegemony and split form revolution and its slogans. The “regulation and literature” book, which is a trilogy by Jürgen Ruhle, has explained this paradoxical relationship. This trilogy is a critical study of the literature and communism in the twentieth century. In the first book ruhle has described the sodality and opposition between the Russian authors and October Revolution. In second book he emphasizes on German literature especially Marxist works during 1917 to 1960 and in the third book focuses on the Marxist works in Latin America. In current paper, we try to explain the contradictory relationship between literature and revolution with emphasis on this trilogy. We especially focus on “revolution and literature: Russian writers” book and use new approaches such as Bakhtian formalism, new literary criticism and trans-historical theory.