Platon Kerzhentsev
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Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev , real name Lebedev (Ле́бедев) (4 August 1881 - 2 June 1940) was a Russian state and party official, journalist, playwright and arts theorist who was involved with the Proletcult movement. He was the 2nd Executive Officer of the Soviet Union.

Kerzhentsev became a Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 in 1904 and gained experience of mass theatre in Europe and anglophone
English-speaking world
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 countries during a period of exile. He was influenced by Percy MacKaye
Percy MacKaye
Percy MacKaye was an American dramatist and poet.-Biography:MacKaye was born in New York City, New York. After graduating from Harvard in 1897, he traveled in Europe for three years, residing in Rome, Switzerland and London, studying at the University of Leipzig in 1899–1900...

, Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...

 and Alexandr Bogdanov. He had articles published in Vestnik Teatra
Vestnik Teatra
Vestnik Teatra was the journal of the Theatre Department of Narkompros, founded in Moscow in 1918. It became an influential journal amongst theatrical practitioners during the period following the Bolshevik seizure of power. It published articles by such people as Platon Kerzhentsev and Vsevolod...

, the Journal of the Theatre Department of Narkompros based in Moscow
Moscow
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.

Articles

  • 'Proletkul't'—organizatsiia proletarskoi samodeiatel'nosti, Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 1 (1918), pp. 7–8;
  • 'Organizatsiia literaturnogo tvorchestva', Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 5 (1918), pp. 23–26.
  • 'Posle prazdnika' Iskusstvo, no.6 (1918): 3-5.
  • 'Repertuar proletarskogo teatra', Iskusstvo, no. 1 [5] (1918), pp. 5–7.
  • Revoliutsiia i teatr, Moscow: Dennitsa, 1918.
  • 'Kollektivnoe tcorchestvo v teatre', Proletarskaia kul'tura, no. 7–8 (1919), pp. 37–41.
  • 'Mozhno li iskazhat' p'esy postanovkoi?' Vestnik teatra, no. 1 (1919), p. 2.
  • 'O professionalizme', Gorn, no. 4 (1919), pp. 69–71.
  • 'Peredelyvaite p'esy!', Vestnik teatra, no. 36 (1919), pp. 6–8.
  • Pervoe maia i mirovaia revoliutsiia, Tver: Tsentropechat', 1919.
  • 'Rozn' iskusstva', Vestnik teatra, no. 19 (1919), p. 2.
  • 'Burzhuaznoe nasledie', Vestnik teatra, no. 51 (1920), pp. 2–3.
  • 'Teatral'nyi muzei', Vestnik teatra, no. 48 (1920), pp. 4–5.
  • 'Pis'mo v redaktsiiu', Vestnik teatra, no. 53 (1920), p. 5.
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