Creative organizations of the artistic intelligentsia at the end of the 1930s (based on materials of Western Siberia)

The paper examines the status and main activity trends of creative organizations of literary and artistic intelligentsia (unions of writers and artists) during pre-war years on the example of regional associations. Their role in implementation of the official arts policy during the 1930s, their importance in rapidly unfolding process of sovietization and etatization of the intelligentsia are characterized.