Mikhail Prishvin in the mirror of the literary process in the USSR in the early 1930s

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of the most mysterious writers and thinkers of the 20th century, Mikhail Prishvin, and to the upcoming 90th anniversary of the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers in 2024. Through the prism of Prishvin’s diary, the reasons that prompted the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks to begin in the early 1930s are examined. The initiative of I.V. Stalin to reform the literary and artistic process in the country is regarded — in connection with the rejection of the narrowed proletarian approach towards the formation of a national culture, which, in particular, was expressed in the Resolution of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks of April 23 “On the restructuring of literary and artistic organizations” and the beginning of preparations for the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers.