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The Struggle for Proletarian Music: RAPM and the Cultural Revolution

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Since the 1930s, the zealous, idealistic proponents of musical revolution in Soviet Russia, the Rossiiskaia assotsiatsiia proletarskikh muzykantov (Russian association of proletarian musicians, RAPM), have served primarily as an embarrassing footnote to the history of Soviet music and cultural politics. Scholarly opinion of RAPM is remarkably consistent in its condemnation, as Russian-Soviet scholars and westerners alike dismiss the organization for its "simplistic" (western) or "vulgar" (Soviet) ideology and aesthetics. This consensus suggests that RAPM deserves its place in the dustbin of history alongside the Rossiiskaia assotsiatsiia proletarskikh pisatelei (Russian association of proletarian writers, RAPP) and other militant advocates of cultural revolution. But the condescending (western) and embarrassed (Soviet) dismissal of RAPM is itself simplistic. Seeing members of RAPM as undertalented and unwitting tools of the regime's agenda, or misguided if well-intentioned deviationists, obscures the important role the proletarian musicians played in the evolution of Soviet musical culture and aesthetics.

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42. The stenogram of this meeting was published as: Vsesoiuznaia kommunisticheskaia partiia, Tsentral'nyi komitet, Otdel agitatsii, propagandy i pechati, Soveshchanie po voprosu muzyki, Puti razvitiia muzyki. Stenograficheskii otchet pri APPO TsK VKP (b) (Moscow, 1930).

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53. Obviously the old technical specialists were more critical to socialist construction than musicians. But concern among the authorities that “class war” not claim too many victims was common in both areas, perhaps because music and engineering are both more ideologically “neutral” than literature and art, making expertise a more critical issue. On the technical intelligentsia, see Bailes, Kendall E., Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917–1941 (Princeton, 1978), esp. 69121.Google Scholar

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70. RAPM's objections to these dances were not isolated or without precedent. Campaigns against jazz were common in the west in this period, and both the tango and the fox trot had generated considerable outcry and public debate when they first came to Russia before World War I. See Starr, Red and Hoi, 34–36, 86; Tsivian, Yurii, “The Tango in Russia,Experiment, no. 2 (1996): 307–35CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Gilman, Chris, “The Fox-Trot and the New Economic Policy: A Case Study in ‘Thingification’ and Cultural Imports,Experiment, no. 2 (1996): 443–75.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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77. Although it is beyond the scope of this essay, Shostakovich's attitudes toward RAPM and the light genre are especially intriguing. His orchestration of “Tahiti Trot,” subsequent denouncement of the light genre (Proletarskii muzykant, 1930, no. 3: 25), work with TRAM, and the parody of Davidenko's mass song “Nas pobit', pobit’ khoteli” (They wanted to vanquish us) in the incidental music he wrote for a production of Hamlet in 1931 suggest the complexities of his place in the Cultural Revolution. See Fitzpatrick, Cultural Front, 194–99, and Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically, 93–94.

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82. One performance of Davidenko's first large–scale work, the opera 1919 g. (The year 1919, also known as Pod “em vagona), was given in November 1931 at a factory club. RAPM critics Iurii Keldysh and Lev Lebedinskii applauded this “first significant attempt” to write large-scale proletarian music and entire issues of Proktarskii muzykant and Za proletarskuiu muzyku were devoted to the piece. Yet Keldysh and Lebedinskii also found serious technical flaws in the work's music and criticized Davidenko's portrayal of the masses during the civil war. See Proktarskii muzykant, 1931, no. 9: esp. 9, 29, and 31; and Za proletarskuiu muzyku, 1931, no. 21: esp. 5–6.

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89. Congress Resolution quoted in Vinogradov, Sud, 3.

90. “Puti razvitiia muzyki—disput vkomakademii o platformakh APMi OSM, “Proletarskii muzykant, 1931, no. 1: 21.

91. “Puti razvitiia muzyki, “Proletarskii muzykant, 1931, no. 1: 20.

92. L. Lebedinskii, “O vragakh i druzhiakh proletarskoi muzyki,” Proletarskii muzykant, 1931, no. 1: 9. Linking RAPM so directly to RAPP may have been ill–advised given that the proletarian writers had their own opponents within the Communist Academy. See Fitzpatrick, “Cultural Revolution as Class War,” 29–30; Kemp–Welch, Stalin and the Literary Intelligentsia, 86–89.

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95. RAPP had about 2, 000 members in this period, whereas RAPM had only 60.

96. See Brown, Proletarian Episode, 172–99.

97. Pervaia konferentsiia RAPM, Rezoliutsii, 15–20, 24–34.

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109. Dmitrii Gachev (1902–1945), who perished in Magadan, was an exception. But it was his connections with Bulgarian communists rather than his activities as a musician that got him into trouble.