Kuznetsov, Ivan Prokliatie strannika. Vtoraia kniga stikhov. Petrograd, 'Kosmist', 1922. 14, [1 p.] €95,00
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Small 8 vo, attractive publisher´s covers. Large and crisp imprint of 'Kosmist' logo by Vladimir Alekseevich Milashevskii (1893 - 1976) on flyleaf.
VERY RARE. Mint condition.
Proletkult poet. 'Kosmist' was a publishing house of APP (Assotsiatsiia Proletarskikh Pisatelei).'Proletkult (Russian: Пролетку́льт), 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 backwards, agrarian Russia.

Although funded by the People's Commissariat for Education of Soviet Russia, the Proletkult organization sought autonomy from state control, a demand which brought it into conflict with the Communist Party hierarchy and the Soviet state bureaucracy. Some top party leaders, such as V.I. Lenin, sought to concentrate state funding on the basic education of the working class rather than on whimsical artistic endeavors. He and others also saw in Proletkult a hotbed of bourgeois intellectuals and potential political oppositionists.

At its peak in 1920, Proletkult had 84,000 members actively enrolled in about 300 local studios, clubs, and factory groups, with an additional 500,000 members participating in its activities on a more casual basis.'-- Wikipedia
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