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Capri school, 6 -7, 9 , 98 , 131 , 164 , 174
Central Economic Council (Vesenkha), 34 , 35
Chekan, Viktoriia, 112
Chief Committee for Political Education (Narkompros). See Glavpolitprosvet
Children, proletarian, 180 -81
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
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