Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1976. — 696 c. Volume V is devoted to German literature after 1918. Here are traced the further ways of writers of critical realism, bold artists of the word, denouncing German imperialism in all its manifestations - whether it is the militarism of the Kaiser, the bloody dictatorship of the Nazis or the revanchism of the West German monopolies after the Second World War. Volume V shows the truly world-wide significance of the work of German anti-fascist writers, who in the difficult years of Hitlerism represented genuine German literature that did not submit to Nazism and called for the fight against it. This final volume also highlights the problem of socialist realism in German literature, a creative method forged by German writers in the fight against fascism and flourishing today in the literature of the German Democratic Republic. The task of the team working on the History of German Literature was to show the origin, formation and development of German literature from the early Middle Ages to 1945. In this work, the history of literature is associated with the history of the people, so the authors considered it impossible to consider the history of German, Austrian and Swiss literature as a whole, but the specifics of the interaction between these peoples and their literatures are given great attention. Showing the national identity and significance of German literature, It has given the world so many bright and noble names. authors sought to highlight the world importance of great works, created by the genius of the German people , Study international relations of German literature , which has contributed to its dissemination and recognition...................................... While working on the History of German Literature, Soviet scientists sought to create a work that would be useful not only for philologists, but also for the general readership. (from editorial)