‘Revolution on pointes’ according to I. I. Sollertinsky: ‘vulgar’ sociology of the classical ballet
An object of attention in this article is a phenomenon of ‘vulgar Marxism’ in the domestic art criticism during the 1920 - the beginnings of the 1930th which is considered on the material of ballet studies by I. I. Solletrinsky. The author comes to conclusion that the so-called ‘vulgar Marxism’, considerably discredited in the next decades, actually probably didn’t come down to a political custom. It represented a specific intellectual strategy intended to search for mechanisms of social influence of art works up to their ability to carry out social transformations.