Kultintern

Kultintern was an international organisation set up to enable the Russian Proletkult organisation to work with an international network of contacts alongside the Comintern. Its goal was to spread "proletarian culture".[1]: 200  It was first proposed in an issue of Gorn, publication of Proletkult, during the First Congress of the Communist International, March 1919, but practical steps were only taken during the Second Congress of the Communist International.[2]

Provisional International Bureau
A group of members of the International Bureau of Proletkult. Sitting (left to right): War Van Overstraeten, P. Lebedev-Polyansky (secretary). A. Lunacharsky (chairman), Nicola Bombacci, Wilhelm Herzog, Standing Walther Bringolf, Jules Humbert-Droz

This was set up on 12 August 1920 following the Comintern Congress. The president was Anatoly Lunacharsky and the General Secretary Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii.[2] The Bureau included several international delegates:

Executive Committee[3]
Others

Criticism

Leo Pasvolsky was one of the first people to criticise the formation of Kultintern. First he portrayed the movement as generally exhibiting a heavy monotony with poetry which was both facile and pretentious. However he further claimed that the foundation of Kultintern would reduce the Proletkult movement "not primarily, but exclusively" to a weapon to promote the Bolshevik view of communism.[4]

See also
  • Akasztott Ember, a Hungarian avant-garde arts magazine which advocated "the formation of an "International Cultural Revolutionary Internationale to be realised through the Proletkult network" in 1922.[5]

References
  1. Lynn Mally, Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990
  2. Biggart, John. "Alexander Bogdanov and the short history of the Kultintern". Alexander Bogdanov Library. Historical Materialism. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  3. "Brothers, Proletarians of All Countries". Proletarskaya Kul'tura (17–19): 1–4. 1920.
  4. Pasvolsky, Leo (1921). "Proletkult:Its Prentions and Fallacies". North American Review. CCXIII (April 1921): 539–550. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  5. Botar, Oliver (1993). "From the Avant-Garde to "Proletarian Art" The Emigre Hungarian Journals Egyseg and Akasztott Ember, 1922-23" (PDF). Art Journal (Spring 1993). Retrieved 29 November 2018.
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