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 introduction to Oskar Walzel′s Die künstlerische Form des Dichtwerkes (1919) and critique of formalism's disregard for history, this author contributed to Russian formalism's early phase ending as critics adjusted their work to the Soviet regime's ideology.