Proletkult
Sign in to saveProletkult (), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917. This organization, a federation of local cultural societies and avant-garde artists, was most prominent in the visual, literary, and dramatic fields. Proletkult aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms by creating a new, revolutionary working-class aesthetic, which drew its inspiration from the construction of modern industrial society in agrarian Russia.
Key facts
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- Proletkult
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- Proletarian Culture
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- Пролетку́льт
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- ru
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- Cover of Tvori!, no. 2 (1921).jpg
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- Cover of the Moscow Proletkult journal Tvori! (Create!), no. 2 (1921), by Aleksandr Zugrin
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- Anatoly Lunacharsky
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- Moscow
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Article
20 sectionsContents
- History
- Factional background
- Birth of Proletkult
- Preliminary conference
- After the Bolshevik seizure of state power
- ''Proletarskaya Kul'tura''
- Development
- Ideology
- Influence on the various arts
- Literature
- Theater
- Contemporary criticism
- Dissolution
- Legacy
- Resurgence of interest later in the twentieth century
- Twenty first century interest
- See also
- Footnotes
- Further reading
- External links
Proletkult (), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917. This organization, a federation of local cultural societies and avant-garde artists, was most prominent in the visual, literary, and dramatic fields. Proletkult aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms by creating a new, revolutionary working-class aesthetic, which drew its inspiration from the construction of modern industrial society in agrarian Russia.
Although funded by the People's Commissariat for Education of Soviet Russia, the Proletkult organization sought autonomy from state control, a demand which brought it into conflict with the Communist Party hierarchy and the Soviet state bureaucracy. Some top party leaders, such as Lenin, sought to concentrate state funding and retain it from such artistic endeavors. He and others also saw in Proletkult a concentration of bourgeois intellectuals and potential political oppositionists.