Proletkult
![Cover of Gorn (Furnace), an official organ of Proletkult](/Images/godic/202502/04/Gorn-19221456.jpg")
![Bolshevik philosopher Alexander Bogdanov, one of the founding fathers of the Proletkult movement](/Images/godic/202502/04/A_A_Bogdanov1456.jpg")
![Anatoly Lunacharsky, a founding father of the Proletkult organization, was People's Commissar of Education of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1929.](/Images/godic/202502/04/Anatoly_Lunacharsky1456.jpg")
![Praesidium of the national Proletkult organisation elected at the first national conference, September 1918. Sitting from left to right: Fedor Kalinin, Vladimir Faidysh, Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii, Aleksei Samobytnik-Mashirov I. I. Nikitin, Vasili Ignatov Standing from left to right: Stefan Krivtsov, Karl Ozol-Prednek, Anna Dodonova, N. M. Vasilevskii, Vladimir Kirillov](/Images/godic/202502/04/The_Praesidium_of_national_Proletkult_Sept_19181456.png")
Proletkult (Russian:Пролетку́льт;IPA: [prəlʲɪtˈkulʲt]), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution which arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917. This organization, a federation of local cultural societies and avant-garde artists, was most prominent in the visual, literary, and dramatic fields. Proletkult aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms by creating a new, revolutionary working class aesthetic which drew its inspiration from the construction of modern industrial society in backward, agrarian Russia.