proletcult

proletcult, an abbreviation for ‘proletarian culture’ (Russian, proletar‐skaya kul'tura), the slogan and title adopted by a movement of cultural revolution and popular education in the Soviet Union, launched in 1917 by A. A. Bogdanov. It claimed to be initiating a new working‐class culture uncontaminated by the bourgeois artistic heritage, and it promoted the publication of works by proletarian writers.