A 1930 discussion on RAPP’s creative slogans

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The article examines the discussion between the RAPP leadership and the «left» opposition about in-depth psychologism and «a live human»: positions of the opponents are compared, common grounds are identified, the disputants’ agreement in assessing the function of ideological impact as the basic issue for a work of literature is stated. The opposition offered a variety of approaches. It disagreed with all the leadership’s slogans concerning creativity, but supported some of them, while defining the psychologism necessary for the proletarian literature as its opposite. Subsequently, both positions were recognized as erroneous, with psychologism being proclaimed a rejected path of literary development.

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Anastasia Vladimirovna Sysoeva

Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences

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ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3844-5908

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