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The article presents an overview of the work of the international scientific and practical conference Literary Digital Archive as Cultural Practice and Social Experience, held on October 20, 2022 at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and dedicated to the results of a research project carried out at IMLI with the support of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (RNF) - Transcript: Politics and Literature. Digital Archive of Literary Organizations of the 1920s-1930s. The essence of the project consisted in digitizing transcripts of meetings of proletarian writers' unions and placing them in a specially prepared digital database. Turning to these sources allows the literary critic to focus on the functions of literary institutions: production, communication, consumption and distribution of material and symbolic goods. The speakers noted the prospects of an extensive path - the expansion of the material involved in digitization, and the intensive development of the project. The discussion of the results ended with general support for the idea of publishing the next volume of the Literary Legacy, dedicated to the history of proletarian writers' unions, the output of which would crown the historical and literary research vector set by the project Transcript: Politics and Literature.

The suicide of Vladimir Mayakovsky, the prophet of the revolution, its «agitator, bawler ringleader», which occurred in 1930, when the fate of the fi rst fi ve-year plan was being decided, coincided with a turning point in the Soviet Union's sociopolitical life. This death, as well as the former suicide of Sergei Yesenin, impressed the society dramatically – it rocked the social optimism of the builders of socialism, besmirching the prospects. The responses of Leopold Averbakh, Maxim Gorky and Viktor Shklovsky to the tragic event reveal their assessment of Vladimir Mayakovsky's work and their attitude to him as a person and a bearer of a certain worldview. These responses are important documents of the time, because they revealed the moral traits of the leaders of the literary life of the country, those who were later called «engineers of human souls». The analysis of statements about Vladimir Mayakovsky's death, undertaken for the fi rst time in this article, reveals the «style» of the era of socialist reconstruction, in which there are no ways to express sympathy for a person: the poet's tragedy became an occasion
for polemics with class enemies (Leopold Averbakh), for edifying teaching (Maxim Gorky), for playing self-justifi cation (Viktor Shklovsky). The «slogan», «educational» and «game» principles represent the triumphant «humanitarianism» of the public
consciousness of the era, understood as a form of «social domination» that provides people with «words» of the position of the arbiters of human destinies. In these relations, there are no concepts characteristic of a patriarchal society that include words and concepts to explain the principle of functioning of the social organism in the categories of «humanity», understood as «moral», «conscientious», «cordial», «sincere», not happening from the mind, but from the action of the «spirit».