Poet-Frontliners

Poet-Fronliners (Russian: Поэты-фронтовики, lit: Poet-Frontliners, also known as the War Generation and Front Poets) is a name applied to the young Russian poets whose youth was spent fighting in World War II and whose best poems reflect upon wartime experiences. Frontliners also included painters and cinematographers. The year 1924 is regarded as the beginning of the "Poet-Frontliners" generation, as many of the poets within this movement were students and young adults at the beginning of World War II. However, others regard the "Front-Line poets" as being those around in their early 20s at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.