Agitational and propagandistic functions were characteristic of russian literature in the 18th and 19th century. true or false?

True, After the 1917 Russian Revolution the ''official'' Russian literature was turned into political propaganda for the communist state. In the 18th and 19th Century, Russian literature was produced especially during the imperial and post-revolution period had intense characteristics of intense concern on philosophical issues, defiance of received generic norms and a strong tendency to formal innovations.

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