Journal: Izvestia of Smolensk State University
Year: 2022

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 Smo