ABSTRACT
Polonsky, too, in his opinion, was hampered by the dialectic metaphysics in his search for the true equilibrium of a revolutionary critic-cherisher of art. He was compelled to think up elaborate ingenuities for escaping from its rigidly practical and, as all practical schemes must be, inherently monotonous conception of reality. And yet Polonsky was destroyed for insisting, even by this circuitous method, upon introducing a contemplation of some honest facts into the “Marxo-Leninist xsthetics”. Polonsky too was attacked and falsified and libelled, hammered, haunted, hounded out of office, out of party, out of press, out of all social breathing space, and out of life. The word press in Russian refers to all printed things, and not so exclusively as with us to the newspapers.
