Recommendatory bibliography in Russia during 1917-1921. Part 3. Bibliographic activities in the Red Army (1918-1921)

During the period of 1917-1921 reached the unprecedented level recommendatory and bibliographic activities in the Red Army, which became the prototype in many forms and methods of recommendatory bibliography in our country. New ideas, especially socialist recommendatory bibliography proclaimed by the Bolsheviks and steadily pursued in life, have been introduced in a bitter struggle with the old, «educational» views on the recommendatory bibliography, a desire to keep it out of the political struggle. «Apolitical» leading bibliographers and librarians (L. B. Khavkina, N. A. Rubakin, A. A. Pokrovsky and others) was subjected to sharp criticism from government officials culture. 1917-1921 were a period of creating high-quality domestic ideologically recommendatory bibliography and characterized the transition from a broad non-enlightenment to the conscious planting of socialist ideology, to address specific social problems, to substantiate the role of recommendatory bibliography in socialist construction.