English Explanatory Dictionary

Proletkult

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917, and aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms by creating a new, revolutionary working-class aesthetic drawing inspiration from the construction of modern industrial society in backward, agrarian Russia.

Word forms

Proletkult

Etymology

From Russian Пролетку́льт (Proletkúlʹt).

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