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Labor and Creation (Trud i tvorchestvo ) (Smolensk Proletkult journal), 132

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