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This introductory note by the guest editor examines a special issue of Slavic Literatures dedicated to the work of Ilya Selvinsky (1899-1978), focusing on his contributions as poet, playwright, and poetry theorist during the 1930s. The collected materials demonstrate Selvinsky's significant yet under-studied role in Soviet literature of this period, particularly through his development of Soviet poetry for the intelligentsia - a form of socialist (tamed) modernism that both inherited the revolutionary modernism of the 1920s and stood in opposition to socialist realism, especially its neo-folkloric manifestations. This literary strategy later influenced the emergence of the poetry of the Soviet sixtiers (shestidesyatniki) and continued to exert a subtle influence on Russian-language poetry through the 1990s. The issue's articles and materials illuminate how Selvinsky developed and disseminated this strategy in the 1930s, his efforts to transmit it to younger writers, and his sustained defense of this literary position through the 1960s.
Keywords:
Ilya Selvinsky
Revolutionary modernism
Soviet cultural policy
The Thaw in literature
Young Soviet poets of the late 1930s