See David Graeber, “The New Anarchists,” New Left Review, no. 13 (January–February 2002): 61–73 →.
Further Reading on Proletkult
∙ Alexander Bogdanov, “Proletarian Poetry” (1923)
∙ Alexander Bogdanov, “The Workers’ Artistic Inheritance” (1924)
∙ Sergei Treti’akov, “Art in the Revolution and the Revolution in Art (Aesthetic Consumption and Production)” (1923)
∙ Report on the First Proletkult Congress (1920)
∙ Lynn Mally, Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia (Oakland: University of California Press, 1990).
∙ Natalia Murray, Art for the Workers: Proletarian Art and Festive Decorations of Petrograd, 1917-1920 (London: Brill, 2018).
∙ Maria Chehonadskih, “The Comrades of the Past: The Soviet Enlightenment Between Negation and Affirmation,” Crisis and Critique 4, no. 2 (2017), 86-105.
∙ Jutta Scherrer, “The Cultural Hegemony of the Proletariat: The Origins of Bogdanov's Vision of Proletarian Culture,” Studies in History 5, no. 2 (August 1989), 195–210.
∙ David Walsh, lectures on Marxism, Art and the Soviet Debate Over “Proletarian Culture”