Plato Mikhailovich Kerzhenetsev

Plato Kerzhenetsev

Platon Michailowitsch Kerschenzew (also: PM Kerzencev; Russian Платон Михайлович Керженцев ; actually Лебедев, ( Lebedew ); * August 16, 1881 in Moscow ; † June 2, 1940 , there was a Russian-Soviet politician and art theorist, historian.

Kerzhenetsev was a Bolshevik from 1904 and in exile from 1912 to 1917. In the Soviet Union he held high positions in the party and state. In 1919 he headed the ROSTA telegraph agency . In 1920 he was a negotiator for the Peace of Dorpat , later ambassador to Sweden and Italy.

Kerzhenetsev was a leader of the proletarian cult and theoretician of mass theater . From 1923 to 1924 he dealt with the scientific organization of work, founded the "Liga wremeni" (League of Time) and edited the journal "Wremja" (Die Zeit).

In the early 1930s he was executive director of the Council of People's Commissars , from 1936 to 1938 chairman of the committee for art affairs and editor of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .

His works, Das Schöpferische Theater (published in Hamburg in 1922) and The Life of Lenin (1937 in Basel), which were translated into German, were put on the " List of harmful and undesirable literature " by the Nazis in 1938 .

Works (in German)

• The working methods of the Proletkult. In: Russian correspondence, ed. Communist International . No. 10, Seehof, Berlin July 1920, pp. 98-100
• The international revolution and proletarian culture, in ibid. Pp. 94–96
• The collective creation in the theater, in ibid. # 12-13, vol. 1, vol. 2, September 1920, pp. 731-733
• The successes of the new theater, in ibid. # 6, 2nd year 1921, pp. 582-588
• The creative theater. Hamburg 1922 (Russian 1918)

Web links

Commons : Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry Platon Kerzhentsev in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)

predecessor	Office	successor
Konstantin Yurenew	Soviet ambassador in Rome April 4, 1925 - November 26, 1926	Lev Kamenev