Conflicts among Sverdlovsk writers in the 1930s

Abstract

This article is devoted to a little-studied issue of the Ural historiography — the formation of creative intelligentsia during the formation of the administration-command system on the example of Union of the Soviet Writers activity. The main purpose of this article is to analyze the conflicts among the provincial writers who represented the specificity of Soviet State formation in the 1930s and the complex nature of creativity. With the help of chronological and comparative-historical methods, applied under the concept of «historical and cultural landscape”, a close relationship between the literary work and the socio-economical, political characteristics of the development of Ural Region was unfolded. In conclusion, the implication of this article is that most of the conflicts among the provincial writers were materialistic by nature and could be explained by the State nationalization of cultural aspects of life in Soviet society.