Creative unions in the USSR
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Creative unions in the Soviet Union
were voluntary societies that united people according to their creative (artistic) professions, similar to Soviet trade unions.
The earliest of them were established in 1932 after disbanding the previous unions, such as RAPP and RAPM.
Like nearly everything in the Soviet Union, they operated under the strict ideological supervision of the Communist Party, and what is more, the creative unions were means of an effective control over the artistic production of their members: the members of these unions had priority in publishing of their works. Usually people expelled from a union could not make any significant money from their creative work. On the other hand, being a member was associated with various perks.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
were voluntary societies that united people according to their creative (artistic) professions, similar to Soviet trade unions.
The earliest of them were established in 1932 after disbanding the previous unions, such as RAPP and RAPM.
Like nearly everything in the Soviet Union, they operated under the strict ideological supervision of the Communist Party, and what is more, the creative unions were means of an effective control over the artistic production of their members: the members of these unions had priority in publishing of their works. Usually people expelled from a union could not make any significant money from their creative work. On the other hand, being a member was associated with various perks.
List of unions
- USSR Union of Architects (1932)
- USSR Union of ArtistsUSSR Union of ArtistsUnion of Artists of the USSR was a creative union of the Soviet artists and arts critics embracing the union republics.The Union started in 1932 to supersede the AKhRR. The integral Union was instituted in 1957...
(1957; republican, oblastOblastOblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"...
and cityCityA city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.For example, in the U.S...
Unions of Soviet Artists existed since 1932) - USSR Union of Cinematographers (1965)
- USSR Union of Composers (1932, as the Union of Soviet ComposersUnion of Soviet ComposersThe USSR Union of Composers or Union of Composers of the USSR , , was a professional organisation of composers in the Soviet Union...
) - USSR Union of Designers (1987)
- USSR Union of Journalists (1959)
- USSR Union of Music Workers (1986, as All-Union Musical Society)
- USSR Union of Theatre Workers (1986)
- USSR Union of WritersUSSR Union of WritersThe USSR Union of Writers, or Union of Soviet Writers was a creative union of professional writers in the USSR. It was founded in 1932 on the initiative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party after disbanding a number of other writers' organizations: RAPP, Proletkult, and VOAPP.The aim of...
(1932, as the Union of Soviet Writers)
See also
- Socialist realismSocialist realismSocialist realism is a style of realistic art which was developed in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other communist countries. Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style having its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism...
- Engineers of the human soulEngineers of the human soulEngineers of the human soul was a term applied to writers and other cultural workers by Joseph Stalin.The phrase was apparently coined by Yury Olesha; Viktor Shklovsky said that Olesha used it in a meeting with Stalin at the home of Maxim Gorky, and it was subsequently used by Stalin, who said...
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