Vladimir Kirillov
Kirillov in 1937
Vladimir Timofeïevitch Kirillov (Russian: Влад′имир Тимоф′еевич Кир′иллов) (2 October 1889, in Kharino, Smolensk Governorate – 16 July 1937, in Moscow) was a Russian proletarian poet associated with Proletkult.
Kirillov was born into peasantry and was first published in 1913. In 1918 he was elected to the national praesidium of Proletkult[1] and also became active in Kuznitsa. He opposed the introduction of the New Economic Policy and left the Russian Communist Party (bolshevik) in 1921.[2]
He became one of the victims of the Great Purge and was arrested on January 30th 1937 and later executed on July 16th.
He was rehabilitated in 1957.
References[]
- ^ Mally L. (2000), Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- ^ Pirani, Simon (2008). The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-07550-8.
Categories:
- 1889 births
- 1937 deaths
- People from Smolensk Governorate
- Russian male poets
- 20th-century Russian poets
- 20th-century Russian male writers
- Great Purge victims from Russia