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.
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Kirillov was born into peasantry and was active in the revolutionary movement from 1904. He was first published in 1913 and mostly wrote for working-class publications. 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 30, 1937, and later executed on July 16.
He was rehabilitated in 1957.
References
edit- ^ 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.