Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii
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| Па́вел Ле́бедев-Поля́нский | |
Literary science and literary criticism | |
| Institutions | Moscow State University Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union |
| Main interests | Marxist literary criticism |
Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev-Polianskii (Russian: Па́вел Ива́нович Ле́бедев-Поля́нский; 21 December 1881 – 4 April 1948) was a
Biography
Born Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev in
He joined the Bolsheviks in August 1917.[2]
From 1917 to 1919, he was commissar of the Main Administration of Literature and Publishing department of the People's Commissariat for Education, where he organised new editions of works of classic Russian literature. From 1918 to 1920, he was chairman of the All-Russian Council of Proletkult during which time he edited Proletarskaya Kul'tura with Fedor Kalinin.[3]
In 1921, he became director of
From 1934 to 1939, he edited Literaturnaia entsiklopediia (Literary Encyclopedia).
From 1937 until his death in 1948, Lebedev-Polianskii was the director of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Academy of Sciences. He led campaigns to erase non-Marxist literary studies and linguistics in the USSR and to establish the principle of partisanship in Soviet science and ideology.[4]
He was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1945.
Works
He published a number of books:
- Lenin and Literature, (1924)
- Three Great Russian Democrats, (1938)
References
- ^ Polianskii, Valerian (1915), "Russlie sotsial'shovanisty i zadacha revoliutsionnoi sotsial'demokratii", Vpered (1): 1–3, 7–8
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (2002), The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921, Cambridge: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
- ^ Lebedev-Polianskii, Pavel Ivanovich accessed 16 December 2011
- ^ Likhachev, D. S (1995). Memories.
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