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There is almost no researcher of the work of Hristo Smirnensky who would not point out the importance of the October Socialist Revolution and the young Soviet poetry in the ideological and creative evolution of the poet. Moreover, usually the question of influence is connected with the question of the genesis and development of Smirnensky's artistic method. Recently, efforts have been directed precisely at such a wider range of problems. This, of course, does not mean that all questions have been exhausted. At least the lack of a comprehensive monograph on the poet so far does not convince us of the opposite. In these brief notes I would like to draw attention to some facts from our literary life in 1919-1923 - the time when Hristo Smirnensky created his most mature works. I am referring to the articles that appeared on the pages of the party periodicals - the newspapers "Mladezh" and "Narodna armiya", the magazine "Novo vreme", advocating the issues of the construction of proletarian culture. B .. Let's mentally travel back forty-three years. The first years of Soviet power, the interventionists have just been expelled. The first steps are being taken in the construction of the new system. The construction of a new culture, a new literature is being started. Everyone is convinced that they must be truly new, just like the new revolutionary fighter and winner of the civil war. In order to embody this new hero in art, new forms, new means of expression are needed. Sometimes new artistic forms are presented as adequate to the revolution. These are forms that set millions of hearts in motion.