Children's Proletkults (Detskie Proletkul'ty ), 181 -82
Chuvinok, Anton, 105
Chuzhak, Nikolai, 58 , 111 , 239
Civil War:
as cohesive force for the state, 194 ;
and disruption of social hierarchy, 256 -57;
effect of on class distinctions, 84 ;
effect of on factory workers, 70 , 72 ;
effect of on industry, 72 ;
effect of on Proletkult, xviii , 70 ;
effect of on workers' leadership, 116 ;
in Proletkult drama, 142
Class purity, 65 , 69 , 78 , 97
Clubs, 183 -91, 233 -39;
during Civil War, 184 ;
criticism of, 188 -89;
function of, 186 ;
importance of stressed by Proletkult, 208 ;
during revolution, 184 n.
See also Workers' clubs
Collectivism, 93 -94, 173 , 215
Collectivists in Proletkult, 217
― 297 ―
Communist Party:
attacks on local Proletkults by, 211 ;
in Civil War, 116 ;
and clubs, 185 ;
and dissolution of cultural circles, 249 ;
and Proletkult, 37 -39, 255 ;
role of in early Soviet state, 34 , 38 ;
social diversity of, 88 ;
women in, 174 .
See also Bolsheviks
Communist Party Central Committee, 214 ;
suppression of Proletkult autonomy by, 193 , 198 , 202 -5
Congress of Soviets, 23 , 28
Constructivism, 247
Cossacks, 64
Create! (Tvori! ) (Proletkult journal), 150
Creation (Tvorchestvo ) (Narkompros journal), 150 , 206
Culture:
bourgeois, 3 , 8 , 18 , 19 , 30 , 168 , 208 ;
Bogdanov on proletarian, 8 -9;
defined by Bolsheviks, xvi ;
Lenin's views on, xvi , 225 , 226 ;
links of with politics, 20 ;
proletarian, xix , 1 , 2 -3, 10 , 29 , 123 , 160 , 221 -28;
Proletkult's views of, xxvi ;
Russian, xvi , 2
Culture of the Future (Griadushchaia kul'tura ) (Proletkult journal), xxvii
D
Dawn of the Future (Zori griadushchego ) (Proletkult journal), xxvii , 99 , 140
Dawn of the Proletkult (play), 240
"Declaration of Children's Rights," 180
Democratic Centralists, 195
Division for Proletarian Culture (Narkompros), 45
Divorce, 174
Dodonova, Anna, 40 , 239 n;
career of, 108 ;
and production art, 151 -52
Don't Go (Ne khodi ) (play), 148 , 177
Drama:
collective, 148 ;
Russian, 13
Duma, 21
E
Education:
adult, 11 -16;
and political activism, 15 ;
popular, 2 -3
Eisenstein, Sergei, 111 , 149 , 240 , 244
Ekaterinodar, 51 n
Eleventh Party Congress, 222 , 225
Elkina, Dora, 41
Empiriomonism (Bogdanov), 5 , 200
Encyclopedia, proletarian, 48
Engineer Menni (Bogdanov), 163 -64
Enough Simplicity for Every Wise Man (Ostrovsky), 240
Esenin, Sergei, 79 , 147
Exile schools, 6 -7, 97 , 98 , 100 , 131 , 164
F
Factory clubs, 176 ;
Proletkult control of, 212
Factory committees:
and cultural work, 24 -25, 33 ;
in February Revolution, 22 ;
and organization of Proletkult, 27 , 53
Factory Proletkult organizations, 54 , 71 , 77 , 188 , 220
Faidysh, Vladimir, 69n, 108 , 201 , 219
Family, proletarian, 173 -83;
values of, 173
February Revolution (1917), 21 , 29 , 116 ;
educational reforms in, 22
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First Five-Year Plan, 245 -51;
cultural ramifications of, 245 ;
and growth of Proletkult, 229
First National Conference. See National Founding Conference (1918)
First Workers' Socialist Club (Kostroma), 187
First Workers' Theater (Moscow), 240 , 241 , 242 -43
Folk music, 125 , 134
For the Red Soviets (Za krasnye sovety ) (play), 142
Forward (Vpered ) (journal), 98
The Foundry (Kuznitsa ) (journal), 102 , 155
Furnace (Gorn ) (Proletkult journal), 150 , 151 , 221 ;
demise of, 234
The Future (Griadushchee ) (Proletkult journal), xxvii , 52 , 82 , 132 ;
editorial policies of, 139 -40
Futurism, 204 , 205 , 239 -40;
attacked by Proletkult, 145 ;
denunciations of, 149 , 150
G
Gas Masks (Protivogazy ) (play), 241
Gastev, Aleksei, 10 , 71 , 101 n;
and organization of Proletkult, 101
Gerasimov, Mikhail, 18 , 98 , 122 , 138 , 147 , 176 , 258 ;
criticism of Proletkult by, 155 ;
early career of, 99 -100;
leaves Proletkult, 102 ;
in Paris, 10 ;
and peasantry, 65 ;
and Samara Proletkult, 101
Ginzburg, Raisa, 216 , 234
Glavpolitprosvet, 189 , 196 -97, 207 , 208 , 209 ;
financial support of Proletkult, 218 , 219 -20.
See also Adult Education Division (Narkompros)
Glière, Reinhold, 111 , 133
Glizer, Iuliia, 243