Abstract: The 5th issue of the Codex Manuscriptus includes articles prepared based on the materials of the international scientific conference “Aesthetics of Communism: Theories and Institutions” (October 2021). Using archival primary sources, they for the first time reconstruct the institutional activities of the group of proletarian writers “Forge”, regional branches of the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers, the Federation of Associations of Soviet Writers, and the Literary Association of the Red Army and Navy. In the section of archival publications, the part dedicated to proletarian literature of RSFSR from unpublished reference book “Ten Years of Proletarian Literature” is published for the first time, representing the experience of presenting the achievements of the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers for the 10th anniversary of Soviet power. The book is intended for specialists — philologists, historians, cultural experts, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in the history of the domestic literary process of the twentieth century.
Keywords: source study, archive, scientific edition, textual criticism, commentary, literary institutions, Soviet literature.
CONTENTS
ARTICLES AND REPORTS
Aesthetics of Communism: Soviet Culture as a Research Field
Evgeniy A. Dobrenko. Hegemony of Brotherhood: The Birth of the Soviet Multinational Literature, 1922–1932
Carol Any. Gruppovshchina and “Communitas” in the Soviet Writers’ Union, 1932–1949
Craig Brandist. Indian Literature and the Politics of the Vernacular: Early Soviet Indology, Semantic Palaeontology and the Ideology Critique of Brahmanism
Dmitry M. Tsyganov. “Classics” and “Classical” in Soviet Science of Literature: Formalists and Comparativists (Side Notes)
Institutional Aspects of the Literary Process: Organizational Strategies, Funding Sources, Aesthetic Theories, Artistic Practices
Daria S. Moskovskaya, Elena D. Galtsova. In the Struggle for Proletarian Literature: Financial and Political Components
Alexandre F. Stroev. Political and Financial Projects of Henri Barbusse
Anastasia G. Gacheva. Literary Group “Kuznitsa”: History, Aesthetic Platform, Artistic Practice
Olga V. Bystrova. “...I Have a Disagreement Organizational Order…”: About One Conflict 1931 in the Leadership of the RAPP
Daria S. Moskovskaya, Olga V. Bystrova, Anna V. Khrustaleva. Saratov Association of Proletarian Writers: Materials for the History of Regional Associations
Anastasia V. Sysoeva. Literary Struggle and the Fate of Its Participants: to the History of the Formation of LOKAF and Its Leningrad-Baltic Branch
ARCHIVAL PUBLICATIONS
From the Creative Heritage of the Writers
Ruslan E. Klementiev. Materials on the History of Proletarian Literature of Soviet Russia from the Unpublished VAPP Reference Book “Ten Years of Proletarian Literature”. The Article and Publication
Vladimir V. Turchanenko. On the History of the Nomination of the Academic Edition of the Complete Works of A.S. Pushkin for the Stalin Prize
