Sentence:  ... during the years of the civil war, scarcely any works of pure literature were printed at all. Poetry was recited orally: futurists and their close literary allies, the <WSD>imaginists</WSD>, organized poetry soirées, open to the public, in Moscow cafés. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  ("literature") One of the Russian poets belonging to the (imaginism) movement.