Proletarskaya Kul'tura

Proletarskaya Kul'tura (English: Proletarian Culture) was a magazine published by Proletkult.

It was an important political and cultural publication in Russia following the Bolshevik seizure of power. It was edited by Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii and Fedor Kalinin. They published such writers as Alexander Bogdanov and Aleksei Gastev.

In summer 1919, Rogozinsky's proposal to turn the Proletarian University into the Sverdlov Proletarian University, a proposal accompanied by restrictions in scope limited to creating a training school for government and party officials. That was backed up by an article in Izvestiya distinguishing between a 'proletarian' and 'communist' university, which would mean focusing on training party activists. Research into proletarian science, or producinga "Workers' Encyclopedia" would be set aside. When Maria Smit, a professor at the Proletarian University, submitted a response which said that it was necessary to train leaders as well as organisers Izvestiya declined to publish it, and it appeared in Proletarskaya Kul'tura.^[1]

Selected articles

No. 1 (July 1918)

Bogdanov A. 'Proletarian Poetry' (Chto takoe proletarskaya poeziya), English translation: Labour Monthly, Vol IV, No. 5-6, May–June 1923 & Vol V, No. 6, December 1923

No. 2 (July 1918)

Bogdanov A. Science and the Working Class

No. 4 (September, 1918)

Bogdanov A. (Metody truda i metody poznaniya)
Lebedev-Polianskii Editorial: Comrade Lenin (Tov. N. Lenin (V.I.Ul'yanov))

No. 5 (November, 1918)

Lebedev-Polianskii (God proletarskoi diktatury)

No. 7/8 (April–May, 1919)

Bogdanov A. Essays in Organisation Science Очерки организационной науки (Ocherki organizatsionnoi nauki)

References

↑ Sheila Fitzpatrick (2002), The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921, Cambridge: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies