“That reactionary social and artistic movement, the spokesman of which is Bryusov, has now spread across the Republic in a wide wave. Bryusov's creativity is not an isolated phenomenon, not an individual, solitary fact. Read the proletarian poets, open the issues of Krasnaya Niva or Krasnaya Novi, Izvestia or Pravda, and you will see pure Brusovism there. Communist youth are studying with Bryusov; Almost the entire province is working under Bryusov and the Bryusovs; Bryusov’s siblings are St. Petersburg Acmeists or Moscow neo-romantics, etc., poetic groups and small groups...”