Russian Association Of Proletarian Musicians

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians or RAPM (Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, ¿¿¿¿ ) was a musicians' creative union of the early Soviet period. In 1932 it was disbanded, together with other unions, such as RAPP, by The Decree on the Reformation of Literary and Artistic Organizations on April 23, 1932. The Russian Association of Proletarian Writers, also known under its transliterated abbreviation RAPP (Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, ¿¿¿¿) was an official creative union in the Soviet Union established in January 1925. Among its stated purposes was "to scourge and chastice" in the name of the Party", i.e., effectively encouraging censorship of literature on ideological grounds. Among the first targets were Yevgeny Zamiatin and Boris Pilnyak. It became notorious for its "enthusiastic" attacks on writers who failed to fit the RAPP's definition of the "true Soviet writer", which have eventually earned criticism from the leadership of the Bolshevik party.