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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