COLLECTIVE FORMS OF THE LITERARY PROCESS IN THE URALS IN 1925-1932
The literary process in the Ural in 1925-32 was dominated by the UralAPP. Its institution was prompted by a relatively small number of professional authors, late consolidation of the literary circles of the region because of the civil war, low educational level of many of the literary groups' members, as well as the RAPP (<i>Russian Association of Proletarian Writers</i>) efforts. Many of the Urals associations lacked any conceptual individuality and copied declarations of the metropolitan associations. At the same time their internal disagreements and arguments often resulted in the writers' 'diversion' from the 'general line' of the CPSU. In 1932 in order to secure 'manageability of the art' the RAPP was reorganized into the Union of Soviet Writers.