commune in a nationalized former palace in Petrograd and used among other sources the financial support of Maxim Gorky, even though the group considered the realistic novel and the style of socialist realism to be outdated and therefore called the works of their benefactor into question. References Sources Trotsky, Literature and Revolution, Chapter 2 (analysis of the Fraternity). Hongor Oulanoff, The Serapion Brothers: Theory and Practice, Mouton, 1966 (the first book-length study of the group). Soviet literature Russian literary societies Literary movements