Janis Janson-Brown (party pseudonym Brown , in historiography the double surname Janson-Brown is often found) (March 6, 1872, Ravsky volost , Kurland province , Russian Empire - March 31, 1917, died in the explosion of the ship) - figure of the Latvian revolutionary movement, literary critic and publicist.
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Biography
In the 1890s, he was one of the leaders of the Latvian Social Democratic literary movement " New Current " (" Latvian. Jaunā strāva "). From 1895 to 1897 he was the editor-in-chief of the Dienas Lapa periodical, the most popular newspaper among Latvian readers. In 1897, the course was defeated, and the newspaper was closed. Since 1903 he was an authoritative figure in the Social Democratic Latvian movement; headed the Baltic Latvian Social Democratic Labor Organization . In 1904 - Chairman of the Latvian Social Democratic Labor Party . In 1906 he became the head of the Social Democracy of the Latvian Territory. In 1906 he went to emigration after the revolutionary events of 1905 . In 1907, the 5th Congress of the RSDLP was held in which he participated as a delegate. In 1911, he made a conciliatory position with respect to the liquidators — those members of the RSDLP who intended to transform the revolutionary structure of the party into a legal party by analogy with the socialist-oriented parties of the Western European type. For the desire of Janis Janson-Brown to support the elimination of illegal departments, the RSDLP was criticized by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin until 1914. From 1914 to 1918 he was a member of the Bolshevik section in London ; All World War I spent in Britain. He died during his return to the Baltic states after the February Revolution during torpedoing by the German military vessel of the ship on which he was.
Literary work
In 1908, Janis Janson-Brown published the critical book Fauni vai klauni ?, in which he criticized the ideological foundations of decadent literature and modernist aesthetics, laid the theoretical foundations for a revolutionary reassessment of reality under the dominance of Marxist philosophy. Janis Janson-Brown is the author of a series of articles, Thoughts on Contemporary Literature, which became the first examples of Marxist literary criticism; thus, Janson-Brown can be considered the initiator of Latvian critical thought. He also owns the authorship of the book “Historical Materialism” (1910). Through his articles, including the iconic “Will we have proletarian art?” (1913), he acted as an active promoter of Marxist philosophy and aesthetics.
Literature
- Riga: Encyclopedia = Enciklopēdija "Riga" / Ch. ed. P.P. Eran. - 1st ed .. - Riga: Main Edition of Encyclopedias, 1989. - P. 807. - 880 p. - 60,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89960-002-0 .