The Praesidium of national Proletkult Sept 1918

Stefan Savvich Krivtsov (russian: Степан Саввич Кривцов; 1885—1943) was a Russian

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professor of history and cultural activist who played a major part in the ideological development of the

Proletkult Proletkult ( rus, Пролетку́льт, p=prəlʲɪtˈkulʲt), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolut ...

. He graduated from the Faculty of History, Physics and Mathematics, Moscow State University. He saw the role of Proletkult as being involved in life-building: "The Proletkult is striving to create a new proletarian culture, not just new songs, new music, new theatre, but rather a whole new mode of life. we must create an entirely new world from top to bottom". He wrote for ''

Proletarskaya Kul'tura ''Proletarskaya Kul'tura'' (russian: Пролетарская Культура; English: ''Proletarian Culture'') was a magazine published by Proletkult. It was an important political and cultural publication in Russia following the Bolshevik se ...

'', often critically when the reality of the movement did not live up to his vision. :"In place of a club in

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they have a cookhouse. The same goes for the club in Petrovsk. They named it after comrade

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and it should have the clearest and loftiest goals, such as the unification of the workers and the wakening of their interest in and love for art. Instead they have some sort of free love unions." In 1928, following the death of

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, Krivtsov wrote an account of his memories of one of the founding figures of Proletkult for the '' Under the Banner of Marxism''. He died in 1943 and is buried in the Donskoy Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Krivtsov, Stefan Soviet historians 1885 births 1943 deaths Cultural activists