CREATIVE UNIONS OF KEMEROVO REGION IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1970s – LATE 1980s (as reveled in the materials of Kemerovo branch of the Union of Artists of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Kemerovo branch of the Union of Writers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the activities of creative unions ofKemerovoregion in the second half of the 1970s – late 1980s and based on the materials of theKemerovobranch of the Union of Artists andKemerovobranch of the Union of Writers. The author defines specifics of the local branches of the Union of Artists and theUnion of Writers, identifies the main stages of their activities and lists the positive and negative factors of the Unions’ development. Relations between public authorities and members of creative unions (including problems of social support of intelligentsia) have been studied. Local branches of the creative unions completed the period of formation and took the path of sustainable development in the second half of the 1970s. The period of the highest development of the local branches of the Union of Writers and the Union of Artists is the 1980s. Only the period of «perestroika» was contradictory for the local creative intelligentsia: the degree of state control decreased, but at the same time people’s attitude to the intelligentsia changed.