Title of the article:

THE SLOGAN OF “ODEMYANIVANIE’ AS A PROGRAM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROLETARIAN WRITING

Author(s):

Moskovskaya, D.S., Romanova, O.V.

Information about the author/authors

Daria S. Moskovskaya — DSc in Philology, Chief Researcher, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, Head of the Department of Manuscripts, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St. 25a, bldg. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8089-9604
E-mail: darya-mos@yandex.ru

Olga V. Romanova — Research Associate, the Department of Manuscripts, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St. 25a, bldg. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3684-5331
E-mail: coatle3303@gmail.com

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2024

Volume

Vol. 72

Pages

pp. 167–176

Received

January 19, 2024

Approved after reviewing

March 04, 2024

Date of publication

June 25, 2024

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2024-72-167-176

Index UDK

821.161.1.0

Index BBK

83.3 (2Рос = Рус)6 + 83

This work was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation no. 20-18-00394. Research project “Transcript: Politics and Literature”. The Digital Archive of Literary Organizations of the 1920s-1930s. Available at: https://rscf.ru/project/20-18-00394/

Abstract

The slogan of “odemyanivanie”, as a call to proletarian poets to learn from the poet and fable writer, agitator and propagandist D. Bedny was not a short-term campaign of the critics of the Association of Proletarian Writers, responding to the historical moment when the Association was looking for artistic ways to embody a new, properly proletarian content. The slogan of “odemyanivanie” accompanied proletarian critical thought for a whole decade, from 1923 to 1932, each time revealing a new educational, enlightening, ideological and political potential. In this way, Demyan Bedny's experience of working with the word was drawn into the sphere of literary struggle and political order, and the slogan itself changed its reference in response to the political and ideological peculiarities of the current time. From this perspective, the “odemyanivanie” slogan appears as a concentrated expression of the Association's literary policy during the years of its peak as well as in the moment of its decline.

Keywords

Slogan of “Odemyanivanie”, Proletarian Literature, Grassroots Writers, Literary Organisations, Literary Criticism.

Reference

References

1 Dobrenko, E. Formovka sovetskogo pisatelia. Sotsial'nye i esteticheskie istoki sovetskoi literaturnoi kul'tury [Formation of a Soviet Writer. Social and Aesthetic Sources of the Soviet Literature Culture]. St. Petersburg, Akademicheskii proekt Publ., 1999. 557 p. (In Russ.)

2 Dobrenko, E. Formovka sovetskogo chitatelia [ Formation of a Soviet Reader]. Moscow, Akademicheskii proekt Publ., 1997. 321 p. (In Russ.)

3 Kornienko, N.V. “Skazano russkim iazykom…” Andrei Platonov i Mikhail Sholokhov: Vstrechi v russkoi literature [“Said in the Russian Language…” Andrei Platonov and Mikhail Sholokhov: Meetings in the Russian Literature]. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2003. 533 p. (In Russ.)

4 Moskovskaia, D.S. “Biografiia mestnosti v russkoi literature epokhi bor'by za novyi byt” [“Locality Biography in the Russian Literature During the Period of the Struggle for a New Life”]. V poiskakh novoi ideologii: sotsiokul'turnye aspekty russkogo literaturnogo protsessa 1920–1930-kh gg. [In Search of a New Ideology: Social and Cultural Aspects of the Russian Literature Process of 1920s – 1930s]. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2010, pp. 84–154. (In Russ.)

5 Moskovskaia, D.S., Bakshaeva, N.Iu., Romanova, O.V. “Massovost' i ‘massovizatsiia’ v rannesovetskom literaturnom protsesse” [“Mass Character and ‘Massovization’ in the Early Soviet Literary Process”]. Studia Litterarum, vol. 7, no. 4, 2022, pp. 10–33. https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-10-33 (In Russ.)

6 Moskovskaia, D.S., Romanova, O.V. “Literaturnye kruzhki kak instrument stroitel'stva proletarskoi kul'tury. 1920–1932 gg. (po dokumentam otdela rukopisei IMLI RAN)” [“Literary Circles as a Means of Forming Proletarian Culture. 1920–1923 (Based on Documents of Manuscript Department of IWL RAS)”]. Vestnik slavianskikh kul'tur, vol. 61, 2021, pp. 189–198. https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2021-61-189-198 (In Russ.)

7 Sotsrealisticheskii kanon: sbornik statei [Canon of Socialist Realism: Collection of Papers], ed. by H. Gunther, E. Dobrenko. St. Petersburg, Akademicheskii proekt Publ., 2000. 1040 p. (In Russ.)

PDF-file

Download