Leopold Averbakh
Leopold Averbakh | |
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L. L. Averbakh on the Ogoniok magazine | |
| General Secretary of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers | |
| In office January 1925 – April 1932 | |
| Preceded by | position established |
| Succeeded by | position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 8, 1903 |
| Died | August 14, 1937 (aged 34) |
| Party | All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) |
| Relatives | Yakov Sverdlov (uncle) Zinovy Peshkov (uncle) Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (father-in-law) Genrikh Yagoda (brother-in-law) |
Leopold Leonidovich Averbakh (Russian: Леопо́льд Леони́дович Аверба́х; 8 March 1903 – 14 August 1937) was a Soviet literary critic, who was the head of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP) in the 1920s and the most prominent member of a group of communist literary critics who argued that the Bolshevik Revolution, carried out in 1917 in the name of Russia's industrial working class, should be followed by a cultural revolution, in which bourgeois literature would be supplanted by literature written by and for the proletariat. Averbakh was a powerful figure in Russian cultural circles until Joseph Stalin ordered RAPP to cease its activities in 1932.