Vladimir Kirillov
Illustration — Kirillov in 1937 Vladimir Timofeïevitch Kirillov (2 October 1889, Kharino, Smolensk Governorate – 16 July 1937, Moscow) was a Russian proletarian poet associated with Proletkult. Kirillov was born into peasantry and was active in the revolutionary movement from 1904. He was first published in 1913 and mostly wrote for working-class publications.
Vladimir Kirillov
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- Vladimir Kirillov was born on 2 October 1890. · Dukhovshchina.
- Died
- Vladimir Kirillov died on 16 July 1937. · Moscow.
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- Soviet Union · Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic · Russian Empire
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- poet
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- Russian
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Illustration — Kirillov in 1937 Vladimir Timofeïevitch Kirillov (2 October 1889, Kharino, Smolensk Governorate – 16 July 1937, Moscow) was a Russian proletarian poet associated with Proletkult. Kirillov was born into peasantry and was active in the revolutionary movement from 1904. He was first published in 1913 and mostly wrote for working-class publications.
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In 1918 he was elected to the national praesidium of Proletkult and also became active in Kuznitsa. He opposed the introduction of the New Economic Policy and left the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1921. He became one of the victims of the Great Purge and was arrested on January 30, 1937, and later executed on July 16. He was rehabilitated in 1957.
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Praesidium of the national Proletkult organisation elected at the first national conference, September 1918. Sitting from left to right: Fedor Kalinin, Vladimir Faidysh, Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii, Aleksei Samobytnik-Mashirov I. I. Nikitin, Vasili Ignatov Standing from left to right: Stefan Krivtsov, Karl Ozol-Prednek, Anna Dodonova, N. M. Vasilevskii, Vladimir Kirillov
Izd. Proletkul'ta · Protokoly pervoi Vserosskoi kenferentsii proletarskikh kul'turno-prosvetitel'nykh organizatssi (Moscow 1918)
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Vladimir Kirillov was born in Dukhovshchina.
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- 1.Mally L. (2000), Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- 2.Pirani, Simon. The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite. Routledge. 2008. 978-1-134-07550-8.
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