Culture and art

The book includes literary criticism and miniatures.

“...If only we could form a society of young, active people, gifted with true abilities; if these people - with a sense of their dignity, but without any arr...

“Power of the Earth” (1882) - a series of essays by G.I. Uspensky. “The Power of Darkness” (1886) - play by L.N. Tolstoy.

“The most terrible sin on earth is hypocrisy. They won’t wash you away from it even in the hellish cauldron...” (c)

18+. The text contains obscene lan...

“The revolution in art currently taking place is characterized, first of all, by the complete destruction of self-sufficient aesthetic forms opposed to reali...

“We must first distract ourselves from the overload of aesthetic terms and impressionistic phraseology of B. Vipper, from all these bourgeois specialist temp...

“In the 2nd issue of “Young Guard” an article was published by Comrade. Kollontai “About the Dragon and the White Bird”, the article is a letter “to working ...

“I. Kon’s book, translated and published by Gosizdat, belongs to that category of bourgeois scientific and artistic literature that can be called philosophic...

“The book contains several witty and correct remarks about abstruse language, about Mayakovsky. The rest is a typical Gaer method of a critic, who “likes” on...

“On pages No. 11-12 of “New Lef” for 1927, an interesting debate took place about which cinema should be considered Lef’s, that is, left, that is, obviously,...

“That reactionary social and artistic movement, the spokesman of which is Bryusov, has now spread across the Republic in a wide wave. Bryusov's creativity is...

“This article was not conceived as an abstract theoretical study. Art, like other areas of life, is now in the stage of an undoubted revolutionary crisis, th...