At all stages of cultural construction in our country, a huge role belongs to the Soviet state, which, in accordance with its cultural and educational function, contributed to the creation of a new, socialist culture and gave this process a truly communist orientation. This goal was served by special state bodies for the management of culture, as well as the introduction of a planned beginning in all its branches, centralized distribution of public funds, and the adoption by the Communist Party and the Soviet Government of decisions and resolutions summarizing the experience of cultural construction. In the conditions of the pre-war years, the Communist Party, through the organization of special state bodies for directing the arts and the struggle to improve their practical activities, carried out a further "rise in the culture and communist consciousness of the working people" .1A number of major works are devoted to the history of cultural construction in the USSR, both generalizing and on individual issues. The activities of state bodies that manage this process are much less studied. The exceptions are articles on the organization and some aspects of the activities of the first Soviet state cultural management body, the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR, 2 as well as works on the history of state institutions , 3 which briefly describe the Soviet state cultural management bodies. From the whole variety of issues of state cultural management, this article touches only on those that relate to the organization and first stage of the All-Union Committee for Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, created by the decision of the CEC and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of January 17, 1936 in connection with the need to better meet the needs of the population in the field of art and " unite the whole business of managing the development of the arts in the USSR " 4 . The Committee for the Arts was the first state body 1 "Th ... Читать далее