От ВАПП к РАПП: к истории литературной организации

Abstract

The article offers materials on the history of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP). The “line” of the movement from the Section of Proletarian Writers under the LITO of the NKP of the RSFSR to the organizational design of the RAPP at the First All-Union Congress of Proletarian Writers (1928) is considered. An attempt is made to present the processes taking place within the RAPP: organizational separation from the MAPP, the struggle against the Napost minority. The materials on the liquidation of the RAPP are analyzed, making it possible to see that the Organizing Committee of the SSP of the USSR could not do without the experience and accumulated literary practices of the RAPP.The history of the literary organization studied in the article allows us to cover the extensive material presented in documentary sources (statutory documents, transcripts, resolutions, memos) from the archives of the OR IMLI and RGALI, which is being released into scholarly circulation for the first time. The documents also allow us to reconstruct individual episodes in the biographies of writers in the period 1920–1930. The stated topic is one of the most important strategic directions in the study of the literary process of the twentieth century.