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He was a strong advocate of anti-urbanism and a critic of mechanized society, views that brought him into disfavor with communist critics. The poet Demyan Bedny denounced him in Pravda on 16 October 1923 as a "stinking" member of a "horde of ignorant fellow travelers". [2] The Old Bolshevik, Alexander Voronsky, founder of the magazine Krasnaya nov (Red Virgin Land), was offended by a character's remark that the Russian Revolution "smells like genitals", but acknowledged Pilnyakov's talent.