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Index

A

Activism, cultural, xvii

Adolescents, urban, 85

Adult education circles, 97 . See also People's houses; People's universities

Adult Education Division (Narkompros), 35 , 41 , 55 ;

budget of, 44 ;

and clubs, 186 .

See also Glavpolitprosvet

Agitprop, 196 , 224

AKhRR (Association of Revolutionary Russian Artists), 230 , 231

Aleksandrov, Grigorii, 243

Aleksandrovskii, Vasilii, 161

Andreev, A. A., 47

Anti-intellectualism, 110 ;

in Proletkult movement, 105 -6

Archangel Proletkult, 75 n, 83 , 125 , 188 , 219

Are you Listening, Moscow? (Slyshish', Moskva? ) (play), 241

Arskii, Pavel, xv n, 84 , 103 , 142 , 143 ;

elected to national governing council, 102

Art:

experimental, 146 -52;

production, 151 -52, 157 , 244 ;

proletarian, 122 -24, 131 -34, 140 -41, 158 ;

worker-centered, 137 -46

Artisans, 62 ;

membership in Proletkult of, 74 -75;

as threat to proletarian values, 74

Artists:

professionalization of, 152 -59;

proletarian, 144 ;

as Proletkult staff members, 110 -11

Arts, visual, 143 -44;

experimental, 150 -51;

Proletkult sponsorship of, 241 -42

Arvatov, Boris, 151 , 153 , 241 -42

Authors, proletarian, 18 -19, 154

Avant-garde movement, 123 , 240 . See also Futurism

Avenarius, Richard, 5

The Avenger (Mstitel ') (play), 142

Avraamov, Arsenii, 13 , 111 , 133 , 147 , 242 ;

and organization of Proletkult, 28

B

Bagdateva, Elena, 180

Barnaul Proletkult, 149

Belev Proletkult, 109 , 119

Belyi, Andrei, 111

Bessalko, Pavel, 26 , 131 , 138 , 141

Biomechanics (in drama), 149 , 240

Blagonravov, Fedor, 40 , 108 -9

Blinkov, V. M., 105

Bliumenfeld, V. M., 244

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Blue Shirt (Siniaia Bluza) (theater group), 230

Bogdanov, Aleksandr:

attacked by Pravda , 203 ;

career of, 108 ;

on class purity, 107 ;

and collectivism, 94 ;

and Communist Party, 37 ;

in conflicts with Lenin, xx -xxii, xxiii , 10 , 193 ;

denounced by Bukharin, 214 ;

dismissed from Proletkult, 215 ;

as editor of Proletarian Culture , 49 ;

educational ideals of, 164 , 165 -71, 192 ;

on family life, 174 ;

and first national conference, 45 , 47 ;

as lecturer, 72 ;

and left Bolsheviks, 4 ;

participates in 1920 plenum, 207 ;

and peasantry, 64 , 79 ;

politically suspect under Lenin, xviii ;

and problem of revolutionary leadership, 92 ;

on proletarian culture, 8 -9, 110 , 131 , 253 ;

on proletarian science, 162 -63;

and stylistic innovation, 146 -52;

theories of 1 , 2 ;

and vision of Proletkult, 43 , 89 ;

in Vpered circle, 9 -10;

Western studies of, xxii ;

on working-class art, 137

Bogdanov, Aleksandr Alekseevich, 58

Bologna school, 98 , 131 , 164 , 174

Bolsheviks:

and class alliances, 64 ;

and complexities of working class, 63 ;

at end of Civil War, 194 -95;

and family life, 174 ;

and organization of Proletkult, 27 ;

and reorganization of cultural life, 33 ;

young membership of, 86 .

See also Communist Party

Bourgeoisie, 67 , 93 ;

values of, 9 ;

workers' dependence on, 10

The Bricklayer (Kamenshchik ) (play), 141

Brik, Osip, 26 ;

and organization of Proletkult, 28 -29

Briusov, Valeryi, 111

Bukharin, Nikolai, 200 , 214 , 215 , 222

Bureaucracy, Soviet, expansion of, 76

Burliuk, David, 58

C

Capri school, 6 -7, 9 , 98 , 131 , 164 , 174

Central Economic Council (Vesenkha), 34 , 35

Chekan, Viktoriia, 112

Chief Committee for Political Education (Narkompros). See Glavpolitprosvet

Children, proletarian, 180 -81