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included a variety of members of the Soviet literary and artistic avant-garde, as well as critics and academicians. In 1922, Mayakovsky offered a definition of LEF: “encompassing of the social theme by all the instruments of futurism” – this emphasis on avant-garde methods in the service of Soviet
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No. 10, 1927, bore the parenthetical subtitle “Plan issledovaniia” (“Research Plan”). Shklovsky’s study would later be serialized in multiple issues in 1928. Mayakovsky discusses his pre-writing for a screen play entitled “Kak pozhivaete?” (“How Do You Do?”) in a question-and-answer format, while
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contributors regarded the newspaper medium as being conducive to a fact-oriented marriage between the literary and journalistic spheres, one that would be sensitive to the social necessities generated by Soviet modernity. Writing in 1929, Tretyakov maintained: “Our epos is the newspaper…What the
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poets and critics – including Aseev, Mayakovsky, and
Vladimir Trenin – in about a half-dozen instances in the 1927-28 print run, published the aspiring poet’s introductory note, their verse, as well as comments and remarks that indicated the correspondent’s strengths and weaknesses as a poet.
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The LEF emphasis on factual reporting heralded a return to the unvarnished objective world versus manufactured artistic unity. The material of life itself would generate artistic forms suitable for contemporaneity’s expression. The newspaper and attendant journalistic genres (e.g. reportage,
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Christian – a pointer for all the contingencies of life; what the moralizing novel was to the Russian liberal intelligentsia, that is the newspaper for the Soviet activist of our times."
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