Russian Association of Proletarian Writers: Materials for the History of the Literary Organization

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The article analyzes archival materials on the history of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP), representing it from its origins in the form of the Section of Proletarian Writers at the LITO of the NCP of the RSFSR and the All-Russian Union of Proletarian Writers to the All-Russian / The All-Union Association of Proletarian Writers (VAPP) and the final organizational design as a RAPP at the First All-Union Congress of Proletarian Writers (1928). The internal processes of the formation of the APP are presented: organizational dissociation from the MAPP, the struggle against the Napost minority, the “Literary Front”. Archival data on the liquidation of the RAPP allow us to conclude that the Organizing Committee of the USSR Writersʼ Union could not do without the experience and accumulated literary practices of the RAPP in its further activities. The history of the Proletarian Writersʼ Association studied in the article is based on the statutory documents, transcripts of meetings, resolutions, memos of this institution, which are an important source for a general understanding of the domestic post-revolutionary literary process. They also serve as a source of data on the creative biographies of writers of the 1920s and 1930s.

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O. V. Bystrova

A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1542-2516

Cand. Sci. (Philol.), Senior Researcher 

Russian Federation, Moscow

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