About the book: 1975 / The book consists of essays about US writers (Whitman, Bellamy, Howells, Reed, Steffens, DuBois, etc.), in in whose creativity the ideas of solidarity, collectivism, and the pathos of the struggle for the reconstruction of American society on truly just socialist principles found their vivid embodiment. The author shows how the fruitful influence of advanced ideas, which enriched writers both ideologically and artistically, determined the vitality of the socialist tradition in US literature.