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

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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