His critique of the ahistorical nature of formalism, in the introduction to his translation of Oskar Walzel′s Die künstlerische Form des Dichtwerkes (1919) helped speed the end of Russian formalism's initial phase, as critics began to accommodate their work to the developing ideology of the Soviet regime.
In his critique of formalism's lack of historical perspective, presented in his introduction to Oskar Walzel′s Die künstlerische Form des Dichtwerkes (1919), this author helped bring about the end of Russian formalism's initial phase as critics aligned their work with the Soviet regime's ideology.