Sergey Andreevich Papkov,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Vivian Itin during the Party Purge of 1929: Another Step Towards Ruin
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-1-9
The publication describes events in the life of the famous Siberian poet and writer, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Sibirskiye Ogni” V.A. Itin. This public figure accepted the Bolshevik regime during the Civil War, but eventually became its victim. The article considers such episode in the writer’s career as the party purge of 1929 and its consequences. The main features of Itin’s stay in the ranks of the CPSU(b) and the ideological and political claims to him in party circles are elucidated. We reproduce previously unknown fragments of the writer’s written appeals to the organizers of the purge, demonstrating his fundamental disagreements with the party environment and attempts to defend himself from unjust accusations. The purge of 1929 became an important phase in the personal life of the writer, as it provided significant compromising material for the final reprisal against him in 1937–1938. The publication contains new information about the life path of V.I. Itin as a representative of the first generation of Soviet cultural figeres in Siberia. The text also vividly characterizes the features of social and political life in Soviet Russia at the turn of the 1920s–1930s.
Publishing: 28/02/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 01.12.2021
How to cite: Papkov S.A. Vivian Itin during the Party Purge of 1929: Another Step Towards Ruin // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 1 (21), pp. 89–97. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-1-09.pdf]
Links: Issue 1 2022
Keywords: Tomsk; post-soviet years; Revolution square; symbolic transformation; monument; Lenin