Mikhail Gerasimov (poet)
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For the anthropologist with the same name, see Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov.
Mikhail Prokofyevich Gerasimov (Russian: Михаи́л Проко́фьевич Гера́симов, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil prɐˈkofʲjɪvʲɪdʑ ɡʲɪˈrasʲɪməf] ⓘ; 12 October 1889 in Buguruslan – 26 June 1939 in Moscow) was one of the most widely read working-class poets in early-twentieth-century Russia. Initially embracing the Bolshevik Revolution as a liberating event and participating in the effort to create a new proletarian culture, following the New Economic Policy he became disillusioned and was imprisoned during the Joseph Stalin era.
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