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Nikolai Fedorovich Chuzhak (russian: Николай Фёдорович Чужак; real surname Nasimovich, russian: Насимович; 1876,

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– 3 September 1937,

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a

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journalist, literary critic and art theorist.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia
', 3rd Edition (1970-1979) Chuzhak was a son of a craftsman who was attracted to the

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in 1896. In 1904 he went to

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and became involved in the production of ''Proletarii''. He returned to Russia and involved himself in revolutionary politics in St Petersburg, attending the RSDLP conference for military and combat organizations held in

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in 1906. However he was arrested shortly afterwards and in 1908 he was exiled to

Irkutsk Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is ...

. Following the

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of 1917 he joined the unified committee of the RSDLP in Irkutsk and started editing ''Rabochaia Sibir’''. He remained in the Far East of Russia heading the Press department of the regional bureau of the RCP(B), editing ''Krasnoe znamia'' (

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), ''Dal’nevostochnyi put’'' ( Chita), and ''Vlast’ Truda'' in Irkutsk. He worked underground following

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's accession to power. He moved to

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in 1922 and joined LEF, helping to draft the group's founding documents. He was associated with Factography and the concept of "art as the creation of life". However he left in 1924 dissatisfied with what he regarded as

Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 Apr ...

's traditional approach to poetry. Nikolai Chuzhak was father of the

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Evgeny Nikolaevich Somov (1910–1944).Vladimir Neistadt:
Что ни судьба, то трагедия (часть 7)
'. In Russian. Retrieved 2 August 2017

Texts

* ''Toward an Aesthetic of Marxism” (1912) * ''Siberian Poets and Their Works'' (1916) * ''The Siberian Theme in Poetry'' (1922) * ''Under the Banner of Life-Building (An Attempt to Understand the Art of Today)'' (1923)

References

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