Labor and Creation (Trud i tvorchestvo ) (Smolensk Proletkult journal), 132
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Laboratory method, 128
Lebedev-Polianskii, Pavel, 4 , 10 , 39 , 67 ;
and class purity, 106 -7;
and composition of Proletkult, 64 ;
early career of, 107 -8;
and first national conference, 45 , 46 , 49 ;
in Geneva, 10 ;
mobilization of, 55 ;
at national plenum (1920), 206 ;
and organization of Proletkult, 26 , 42 -43;
and Petrograd Proletkult, 119 ;
in Proletarian Culture , 110 ;
on proletarian culture, 160 ;
and Proletkult's mission, 43 ;
on provincial journals, 136 ;
resigns from Proletkult, 206 ;
and role of clubs, 176 ;
and role of intellectuals, 96 ;
on working-class art, 137 -38
Left Bolsheviks, 4 , 6 , 7 , 10 . See also Vpered (Forward) circle.
Léger, Fernand, 150
Lena (Pletnev), 142 , 240
Lenin: assassination attempt on, 46 ;
attacks Pletnev, 224 -25;
on culture, xvi , 199 , 225 -26, 245 ;
and legal status of Proletkult, 201 ;
materialism of, 4 ;
methods of party organization by, 4 ;
opposes Bogdanov, xxiii , 193 ;
opposes Proletkult, 130 , 196 , 198 -99, 201 -2, 224 -25, 232
Leningrad Proletkult, 244 ;
musical productions of, 242 .
See also Petrograd Proletkult
Lenin State Sugar Factory Proletkult (Kursk province), 53 ;
literacy classes at, 82
Lie, Vladislava, 109
Life of the Arts (Zhizn' iskusstv ) (Kologriv Proletkult journal), 132 , 135
Ligovskii People's House, 14
Literature: experimental, 147 -48;
Proletkult sponsorship of, 242 ;
themes in, 135 -36, 138 , 141 -42
Liubimov, Grigorii, 113 , 133
Local Proletkults, 51 -59;
composition of, 74 ;
leadership of, 94
Loiter, Naum, 241
Lower classes: leadership in Proletkult, 97 -105
Lukino Proletkult (Tver province), 87
Lunacharskii, Anatolii, xvii , 4 , 25 , 36 ;
and autonomy of Proletkuh, 59 ;
breaks with Gorky, 7 ;
as Commissar of Enlightenment, 205 ;
in compromises with Narkompros, 197 ;
and demise of Proletkult, 226 ;
disgrace of, 246 ;
on importance of art, 19 ;
and international Proletkult, 200 ;
in organization of Proletkult, 28 , 29 , 30 , 253 ;
in Paris, 10 ;
at Proletkult National Congress (October 1920), 156 -57, 200 ;
vision of Proletkult movement, 31
M
Mach, Ernst, 5
Maiskii, Ivan, 23 -24
Mandelbaum, B. D., 29
Marx, Karl, on proletarian class rule, 8
Marxism, in people's schools, 14
Marxists, Russian, 63
Marxist theory, reinterpretation of by left Bolsheviks, 4
Mashirov, Aleksei. See Samo-bytnik-Mashirov, Aleksei
Materialism and Empiriocriticism (Lenin), 7 , 200
Metalworkers, during Civil War, 71 , 72
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Metalworkers' Union, 71 -72, 194
Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 149 , 240
Mgebrov, Aleksandr, 88 , 103 , 112 , 113 ;
and collective readings, 148
Ministry of Education, 22
Moscow, as center of Proletkult, activity, 45
Moscow Metalworkers' Union, 72
Moscow Proletarian University, 165
Moscow Proletkult, 54 ;
and anniversary of revolution, 129 ;
art studio of, 114 -15;
and factory clubs, 187 ;
founding of, 40 -41;
literary studios of, 135 ;
music studio of, 113 -14, 134 , 242 ;
theater of, 85 , 103 ;
traveling studio of, 142 -43
Moscow Proletkult Conference (1918), 185
Moscow Province Proletkult, 83
Music: experimental, 123 , 147 ;
Proletkult sponsorship of, 242 .
See also Studios
Music collectives, 143
N
Narkompros, 33 -36;
and closing of Kologriv Proletkult, 82 ;
and clubs, 185 ;
in conflicts with Proletkult, 40 -41, 43 , 47 , 56 -57, 59 , 200 -213;
and founding of Proletkult branches, 53 ;
funding of, 209 ;
reorganization of, 208 ;
support of Proletkult by, 89 , 218 -19
National Congress (1921), 105 , 214 ;
delegates to, 77
National Congress (October 1920), 156 -57, 201 ;
guidelines on art from, 157
National Founding Conference (1918), 88 , 96 , 98. See also Proletkult, founding of
Nazarov, Georgii, 103 -4;
elected to national governing council, 102
Nechaev, Egor, 18
Nevskii, V. A., 74
Nevskii, V. I., 168 ;
attacks Bogdanov, 200
New Economic Policy, xviii , 228 ;
and decline of Proletkult, 211 , 215 ;
denunciation of, 214 ;
end of, 245 ;
and proletarian culture, 229
New Journal for Everyone (Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh ), 14
New Life (Novaia zhizn' ) (newspaper), 25 , 27
Nihilism, cultural, 130
Nikitin, I. I., 26
Nikolaitsev, Valentin, 109
Novikov, S., 169
O
October Revolution, xviii ;
and cultural activities, 33 .
See also Russian Revolution
Omsk Proletkult, 219
On Guard (Na postu ) (VAPP journal), 231 -32
"On the Ideological Front" (Pletnev), 222 -23
"On the Proletkults" (Pravda article), 203 -4
Ozolin, Ianis, 114 , 141
Ozol-Prednek, Karl, 40 , 98
P
Palace of Proletarian Culture (Petrograd), 44 , 129
Panina, Countess, 14 , 22 , 99 , 100
Paper, scarcity of, 126
Parfenev Proletkult (Kostroma province), 66 , 128
Peasants, 62 , 64 , 65 , 195 , 209 ;
in factory organizations, 82 ;
in
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Peasants (continued )
February Revolution, 21 ;
in Proletkult, 79 -84, 235 ;
as soldiers, 83 ;
views of Bogdanov on, 64 -65, 79 -80;
views of Bolsheviks on, 63
People's Commissariat of Enlightenment. See Narkompros
People's Conservatory (Moscow), 13
People's houses (narodnye doma ), 13 -16, 100 ;
in World War I, 20
People's theaters, 13 , 132
People's universities, 3 , 12 , 164 , 170
Petrograd: assault on, xv ;
food shortages in, xv
Petrograd Proletkult, 88 , 109 , 129 , 141 ;
autonomy of, 36 ;
club division of; 186 ;
intellectuals in, 118 ;
size of, 68 ;
Socialist Education Division of, 171 ;
theater of, xv , 51 , 112 -13, 114 .
See also Leningrad Proletkult
Pinegina, L. A., xxii
Pletnev, Valerian, 220 , 239 n, 241 ;
contributions of to Workers' Club , 234 ;
and cultural revolution, 246 ;
in dealings with Lenin, 202 ;
in dealings with local Proletkults, 216 ;
and decline of Proletkult, 213 ;
defends Proletkult, 209 , 222 -24, 253 ;
dramatic works of, 142 ;
early career of, 102 -3;
elected to national governing council, 102 ;
opposes New Economic Policy, 222 -23;
succeeds Lebedev-Polianskii, 207
Poetry, proletarian, 122 , 139 -140
Pokrovskii, Mikhail, 201
Polekova factory Proletkult, 133 , 188
Politburo, 202 , 214 ;
and cooperation with Proletkult, 217 ;
and debates on proletarian culture, 221 -22;
and demise of Proletkult, 226
Politprosvet, 210
Polonskii, Viacheslav, 245
Popova, Liubov, 111
Posters, 129
Potresov, Aleksandr, 18 -19
Pozhidaev, Dmitrii, 181
Preobrazhenskii, Evgenii, 38
Press, popular, 13 -14
Professionalization in the arts, 152 -59;
and worker-artists, 153
Proletarian cultural-educational organizations. See Proletkult
Proletarian Culture (journal), 42 , 45 , 46 , 48 , 49 , 55 , 57 , 150 , 188 , 189 , 200 , 207 ;
demise of, 221
Proletarian Writers' Union, 102 , 246. See also VAPP
Proletariat: characteristics of, 65 ;
after Civil War, 225 ;
definition of, xxvi , 62 -63;
after revolution, 225.
See also Working class
Proletkult:
artistic practice of, 239 -45:
autonomy of, xxv , 32 , 36 -44, 46 , 47 , 50 , 54 , 60 -61, 121 , 193 , 194 , 196 -205, 255 ;
and avant-garde, 240 ;
Bolsheviks among, 39 , 63 ;
during Civil War, 32 , 71 ;
class-based ideology of, 111 ;
and clubs, 185 -91, 234 -39;
in collaboration with Red Army, 83 ;
and Communist Party, 32 , 37 -39, 67 , 198 ;
in competition for influence, 34 -36;
constituency of, 32 , 61 -62;
cultural prac-
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tices of, 124 -30, 130 -37, 158 , 214 -21;
decline of, xxvii -xxix, 158 , 205 -13, 227 -28, 233 , 256 ;
definition of, 67 ;
demise of, xviii , 249 -50;
denunciation of by Lenin, 232 ;
emergence of, 3 , 10 ;
expansion of, 50 , 257 ;
and family life, 175 -77, 192 ;
financial difficulties of, 218 -20;
during First Five-Year Plan, 245 -50, 256 , 257 ;
founding of, xviii , 21 -31, 26 -30, 45 -50;
funding, 44 , 48 , 212 ;
identified as Bogdanov's movement, xxiii ;
ideology of, 61 ;
intellectual foundations for, 3 ;
international branch of, 200 -201;
leadership of, 49 , 93 -97, 117 ;
legal status of questioned, 201 ;
literary activities of, 126 , 135 -36;
loss of autonomy by, 196 -205, 202 -5, 210 , 232 ;
membership of, xix , 65 , 66 , 68 , 69 ;
mission of, xviii -xix, 42 -44, 55 , 123 , 152 , 254 -55;
music studios of, 13 , 133 -34;
and Narkompros, 40 -44, 47 , 50 , 56 -57, 89 , 203 , 206 ;
national agenda of, 44 -50;
in national plenum (December 1920), 206 -8;
during New Economic Policy, 84 , 158 , 190 , 215 -16, 224 , 227 -245, 256 , 257 ;
nihilism of, 130 ;
peasants in, 79 -84, 235 ;
period of influence by, xviii ;
and plenum (1922), 218 -20;
political agenda of, 236 ;
principles of, xx , xxv -xxvi;
and problem of revolutionary leadership, 92 ;
and professionalization, 243 ;
provincial branches of, 51 -59, 67 ;
radicals in, 92 , 174 ;
and rejuvenation during "Stalin revolution," 247 ;
relationship to state of, 29 , 31 , 41 -43, 46 ;
and religion, 236 ;
reorganization of, 205 -13;
role of intellectuals in, 117 , 120 -21;
size of, 68 , 221 , 246 -47;
social agenda of, 160 -61;
social composition of, xxiv , 89 , 233 -34;
social programs of, 232 -39;
structure of, 49 -50;
studios of, 126 -29;
successors to, 230 -31;
teachers in, 111 -12;
union control of, 237 , 243 , 244 ;
utopianism of, 160 -61, 191 -92, 254 , 256 ;
views of Soviet research on, xxi -xxii;
vision of the proletariat by, xix ;
and Vpredists, 43 ;
Western studies of, xxii ;
women in, 177 -80, 183 ;
youth in, 84 -88, 180 -82.
See also under individual cities
Proletkult Congress (1921). See National Congress (1921)
Proletkult (Tver journal), 132
Provisional Government, 21 , 31 ;
and cultural policy, 22 -23
Pudemskii factory Proletkult, 71 , 94 n, 188
Pumpianskii, Lev, 144
Pushkino Proletkult (Moscow province), 77
R
Railroad workers, 72
RAPM (Russian Association for Proletarian Musicians), 230 , 249
RAPP (Russian Association of Proletarian Writers), 246 , 248 , 249
Realism, and proletarian art, 144
Red Army, 52 , 70 ;
collaboration of with Proletkult, 83 ;
cultural activities of, 33 ;
and problem
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Red Army (continued )
of revolutionary leadership, 93 ;
sponsorship of theater by, 34 ;
Volga campaign of, 46
Red Army clubs, 83
Red Guards, youth in, 86
Red Star (Bogdanov), 5 , 174
Red Virgin Soil (Krasnaia nov' ) (journal), 231
Revolution of 1905, 11 , 16 , 17
Rodchenko, Aleksandr, 244
Rogzinskii, N. V., 168
Roslavets, Nikolai, 136 , 147
Rostopchina, M. A., 178 -79, 234
Rostov on Don Proletkult, 220
Rozanova, Olga, 111 , 150
Russian Revolution, 91 ;
effect on workers' leadership, 116 .
See also October Revolution
Rybinsk Proletkult, 77 , 126 , 182 ;
theater studio of, 148
S
Sadofev, Ilia, xxix , 98 , 138
Samobytnik-Mashirov, Aleksei, 18 , 49 , 96 , 98 , 109 , 118 , 138 ;
and compromises with Narkompros, 197 ;
early career of, 100 ;
and organization of Proletkult, 26 ;
and proletarian science, 163 ;
and role of intellectuals, 95 ;
and "Smithy," 155
Saratoy Proletkult, 211 ;
art studio of, 114 , 149 ;
literary studio of, 105
Scholarships, 154 , 156 , 158
Science: proletarian, 161 -73, 223 , 257 ;
and socialist system, 162 -63
"Science and Life" (St. Petersburg educational society), 20
Scientific Organization of Labor (Nauchnaia Organizatsiia Truda), 236
Second Comintern Congress (August 1920), 200
Second Duma (1907), 3
Second Front Troupe, 130
Self-education (samoobrazovanie ), 17 ;
circles of, 3
Shcheglov, Dmitrii, 118 -19
Shipova, Mariia, 114
Shklovskii, Viktor, 125
The Shot (Vystrel ) (play), 247
Shtraukh, Maksim, 86 , 111 , 243
Shuia factory Proletkult, 211 -12
Siberian Proletkult, 247
Sidorov, A. A., 144
Smit, Mariia, 164 , 170 -71
"Smithy" (rival of Proletkult), 155
Smolensk Proletkult, 213 ;
science section of, 171
Smyshliaev, Valentin, 114 , 127 , 216 -17
Social categories, confusion of, 78
Social Democratic Party, 3 -4, 173
Socialism, Russian, 1 , 173 ;
as human religion, 5
Socialist realism, 250 -51
Society of Proletarian Writers, 26
Soldiers in Proletkult, 83
Songs of Struggle (Pesni bor'by ) (poetry), 103
Soviets, 23
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 111 , 127
State and Revolution (Lenin), 161
Sterenberg, David, 146
Strikes (Stachki ) (play), 142
Strike (Stachka ) (film), 241
Struggle (Bor'ba ) (journal), 98
Studios, 126 -29, 208 , 210 ;
fine art, 134 -35, 234 ;
laboratory methods of, 128 ;
literary, 135 -
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36;
in Moscow, 128 ;
music, 133 -34;
organization of, 127 ;
performances for Red Army by, 129 ;
and revolutionary activities, 129 ;
science, 170 , 171 , 172 , 209
Sugar Workers' Union, 73
Sunday school movement, 12
Sverdlov Communist University, 168 -69
T
Tambov Proletkult, 44 , 53 ;
art studios of, 129 ;
decline of, 219 ;
literary studios of, 135 ;
music studio of, 128 , 134 ;
theater of, 75
Tarabukin, Nikolai, 149 , 236
Tenth Party Congress (March 1921), 195 , 208 , 209
Textile workers, 73 , 212
Theater: collective, 148 -49;
ex-perimental, 123 , 148 -49, 240 ;
improvisation in, 148 ;
popularity of, 125 ;
proletarian, 133 , 141 -43;
Proletkult sponsorship of, 242 -43;
symbolist, 114
Tobacco Workers' Union, 73
"Tonal-plastic movement" (theater), 149
Trainin, Ilia, 109 , 145 -46, 217 ;
opposes experimentation, 147
TRAM (Theater of Working Class Youth), 230 , 231 , 246 ;
absorption by Komsomol, 249
Tretiakov, Sergei, 111 , 239 , 240
Trotsky, Leon, xvii , 231
Trusteeship of the People's Temperance, 13
Tsinovskii, Leonid, 219
Tula Proletkult: art studios of, 128 -39;
music section of, 124 ;
women members of, 178 -79;
youth in, 86
Tver Proletkult, 109 , 182 , 211 , 212 ;
closing of, 233 ;
membership rules of, 66
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