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The section for the promotion of proletarian culture—The Proletariat—has announced a competitive examination for a text and music of a "new and original revolutionary proletarian hymn."

Document No. 33 presents an enormous program destined to familiarize the entire Russian people with the literary works of the past, while Document No. 34 shows that the Soviet Government is also seeking, in more modest ways, to keep the names of the nation's great constantly in the minds of the inhabitants.

On December 13th, 1917, at the session of the Literary Publication Board a committee was named to draft a decree order-