# Kultintern

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'''Kultintern''' was an international organization set up to enable the Russian [Proletkult](/source/Proletkult) organization to work with an international network of contacts alongside the [Comintern](/source/Comintern). Its goal was to spread "proletarian culture".<ref>Lynn Mally, ''Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia.'' Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990</ref>{{rp|200}} It was first proposed in an issue of ''Gorn'', publication of Proletkult, during the [First Congress of the Communist International](/source/First_Congress_of_the_Communist_International), March 1919, but practical steps were only taken during the [Second Congress of the Communist International](/source/Second_Congress_of_the_Communist_International).<ref name="AB & Kultiintern">{{cite web|last1=Biggart|first1=John|title=Alexander Bogdanov and the short history of the Kultintern|url=https://bogdanovlibrary.org/current-research/|website=Alexander Bogdanov Library|publisher=Historical Materialism|accessdate=17 August 2016}}</ref>

== Provisional International Bureau ==
thumb|right|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](/source/Anatoly_Lunacharsky) and the General Secretary [Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii](/source/Pavel_Lebedev-Polianskii).<ref name="AB & Kultiintern"/> The Bureau included several international delegates:
;Executive Committee<ref name="BPAC">{{cite journal |title=[Brothers, Proletarians of All Countries](/source/%3As%3ATranslation%3AProletarskaya_Kul%2527tura%2FNo.2) |journal=Proletarskaya Kul'tura |date=1920 |issue=17-19 |pages=1-4}}</ref>
* [Wilhelm Herzog](/source/Wilhelm_Herzog) (Germany)
* [Jules Humbert-Droz](/source/Jules_Humbert-Droz) (Switzerland)
* [Nicola Bombacci](/source/Nicola_Bombacci) (Italy)
* [William McLaine](/source/William_McLaine) (Great Britain)
* [Raymond Lefebvre](/source/Raymond_Lefebvre_(writer)) (France)
;Others
* [Max Barthel](/source/Max_Barthel) (Germany)
* [John Reed](/source/John_Reed_(journalist)) (USA)
* [Tom Quelch](/source/Tom_Quelch) (Great Britain) 
* [Karl Toman](/source/Karl_Toman) (Austria)
* [War Van Overstraeten](/source/War_Van_Overstraeten) (Belgium)
* [Haavard Langseth](/source/Haavard_Langseth) (Norway)
* [Walther Bringolf](/source/Walther_Bringolf) (Switzerland)

== Criticism ==
[Leo Pasvolsky](/source/Leo_Pasvolsky) was one of the first people to criticize 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](/source/Bolshevik) view of [communism](/source/communism).<ref name="NAR">{{cite journal|last1=Pasvolsky|first1=Leo|title=Proletkult:Its Prentions and Fallacies|journal=North American Review|date=1921|volume=CCXIII|issue=April 1921|pages=539–550|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008970660;view=1up;seq=549|accessdate=9 April 2017}}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[Akasztott Ember](/source/Akasztott_Ember)'', a [Hungarian](/source/Hungarian_language) [avant-garde](/source/avant-garde) arts magazine which advocated "the formation of an "International Cultural Revolutionary Internationale  to be realized through the Proletkult network" in 1922.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Botar |first1=Oliver |journal=Art Journal |title=From the Avant-Garde to "Proletarian Art" The Emigre Hungarian Journals Egyseg and Akasztott Ember, 1922-23|date=1993 |issue=Spring 1993 |url=https://monoskop.org/images/b/b8/Botar_Oliver_AI_1993_From_the_Avant-Garde_to_Proletarian_Art.pdf |accessdate=29 November 2018}}</ref>

== References ==
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