Afterwards, the Politburo adopted a cautiously worded resolution that warned against a "frivolous and careless" attitude to the old cultural legacy, and that the party should 'fight attempts at purely hothouse 'proletarian' literature". Vardin refused to accept what was now official party policy, which caused a rift within VAPP. He was ousted from the leadership, and VAPP was wound up and its place taken by RAPP (the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers), led by Leopold Averbakh.
