«Invisible Hat» for «Super-Puskhins». Chronicle of Smolensk Literary Life, 1919–1921

Abstract

The article reconstructs the chronicle of the literary process in the Smolensk region in the period from 1919 to 1921. Particular attention is paid to the description and analysis of the controversy about the paths of proletarian art that arose between the editors of the Rabochy Put’ newspaper and representatives of the first official writing organization – the studio of the Smolensk Proletkult. It is generally accepted that it was during these years that the formation of poetics, the so-called Smolensk poetic school, took place, against which all other participants in the literary process acted as disparate creative forces.