Chronicle of Voronsky's Life
Moscow 1920-1929
1921, January Works in Glavpolitprosvet [Main Political -Educational Committee, part of the People's Commissariat of Education].
1921, early February Meets with Lenin, Gorky and Krupskaya to discuss plans for new "thick" journal, which becomes "Krasnaia nov" [Red Virgin Soil].
1921, February 3 Krupskaya signs an order appointing Voronsky head of editing and publishing matters within a subdivision of Glavpolitprosvet.
1921, early June First issue of Red Virgin Soil is published.
1922, February 14 Delivers report to Glavpolitprosvet "On the Character of Contemporary Literature."
1922, February 21 Conference of the Collegium of the Agitation-Propaganda Department of the CC. Voronsky gives report on "The State of the Private Literary Market."
1922, February 27 Reports by A. Ya. Yakovlev and Voronsky to Orgburo "On the Struggle against Petty-Bourgeois Ideology in the Literary and Publishing Realm".
1922, April 21 Writes letter to Lenin about "literariness" in RVS.
1922, July 6 Politburo forms Commission for Organizing Writers and Poets into an Independent Society. Its members include Y. Yakovlev, A. Voronsky, N. Meshcheriakov, P. Lebedev-Poliansky.
1922, July 26 Meeting held in Trotsky's office to discuss literary matters. In attendance: Trotsky, Kamenev, Bukharin, Osinsky, Shmidt, Voronskys, Polonsky, Bubnov, Pyatakov, Preobrazhensky, Popov-Dubovskoy, Lebedev-Polyansky.
1922, July 26 Special commission of Politburo names Voronsky responsible for organizing new publishing house, which becomes "Krug" [Circle].
1922, August Debate organized by editors of "Krasnaia nov": "Contemporary Writers and the People," discussing N. Osinsky's article, "Побег травы" [Blade of Grass] from Pravda, 30 April 1922.
1922, September 14 Voronsky reports on "Kuznitsa" at Politburo meeting. His proposal that they be rendered material support is accepted.
1923, February Becomes co-editor with Bukharin of journal, "Prozhektor."
1923, July Lunacharsky writes letter to Voronsky, to see if their views coincide.
1923, October 15 Signs the "Letter of the 46," throwing support behind Trotsky's policies. [English translation: pdf file]
1923, December 16 Visits Lenin for last time at Gorki.
1924, March 18 Speaks before the Agitation and Porpaganda Department of the Central Committee with a report: "On the 'Current Moment' and the Tasks of the RCP in Imaginative Literature."
1924, May 9-10 Conference of Press Department of the Central Committee; Voronsky gives one of two main reports.
1924, May - 1925, March Twelve articles in Zvezda on literary policy.
1924, June 24 Raskolnikov appointed an editor of RVS. In Italy until October .
1925, January Voronsky driven from editorial board of RVS; Raskolnikov takes over
1925, February 13 Attends session of the commission of the Politburo "On Proletarian Writers," called by Vareikis and attended by Bukharin, Frunze, Lunacharsky, Lebedev-Polyanksy, Kanatchikov, Narbut, and many writers.
1925, late February Voronsky reinstated to editorial board of RVS; Raskolnikov dismissed.
1925, March 3 Second session of the Politburo commisssion "On Proletarian Writers," attended by Vareikis, Bukharin, Frunze and Lunacharsky.
1925, June Spends couple weeks with Babel in Sergievo, a rural village.
1925, July 1 Central Committee Decree "On Party Policy in the Realm of Imaginative Literature" is published in Pravda.
1925, December 8-31 Attends XIVth Party Congress. [Photo]
1926, February 12 Participates in a debate, "Literary Russia," in the Hall of Columns.
1926, late summer? Meets Buiko, Markov and Bogdanov in the "Red Rocks" sanatorium in Kislovodsk. [Photo]
1926, October 12 Writes to Gorky from Kislovodsk.
1926, November 21 Attends Congress of North-Eastern Writers of "Pereval" in Vologda.
1927, February 21 Jubilee celebration of RVS at Herzen House in Moscow. [Photo] [Article About]
1927, April 18 Speaks before hostile session of the Press Department of the Central Committee. Agenda: "On the Journal, 'Red Virgin Soil'"
1927, May 30 Orgburo appoints new editorial board for RVS: Voronsky, V. I. Vasilevsky, V. M. Friche, and F. F. Raskolnikov.
1927, June 6 Voronsky asks Orgburo to relieve him of his duties at RVS.
1927, June Signs "Declaration of the 84."
1927, September 14 Letter to CC and CCC about readiness to defend views before XVth Congress. Signed by 31, including Voronsky, Lashevich, Smilga, Rakovsky, Radek, Sosnovsky, Zorin, Trotsky, and Zinoviev.
1927, October 13 The Politburo removes Voronsky from the editorial board of "Red Virgin Soil."
1928, February Expelled from party.
1928, July 8 Writes to Zamoshkin from Essentuki (near Kislovodsk)
1929, January 24 Arrest anounced in Pravda. [See document]
1929, January 29 Yaroslavsky writes letter to Stalin: "It would be sufficient if he were exiled from Moscow to a non-industrial area, somewhere like Lipetsk in the Tambov region, since Voronsky is a very sick man."
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