Vyacheslav Polonsky

Vyacheslav Pavlovich Polonsky (June 23, 1886 – February 24, 1932) - the pen name of Vyacheslav Pavlovich Gusin^[1] - was a Russian literary critic, journalist and historian who was active in the Soviet Union in the 1920s up to his death in 1932. He was particularly involved in a controversy over competing accounts of the life of Mikhail Bakunin.^{[citation needed]}

An abbreviated version of his essay "Lenin's views of art and culture" was published by Max Eastman in his book Artists in Uniform: a Study of Literature and Bureaucratism published in 1934.^[2]