Kultintern

[1]: 200  It was first proposed in an issue of Gorn, publication of Proletkult, during the First Congress of the Communist International, March 1919, but practical steps were only taken during the Second Congress of the Communist International.

The president was Anatoly Lunacharsky and the General Secretary Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii.

[2] The Bureau included several international delegates: Leo Pasvolsky was one of the first people to criticize the formation of Kultintern.

First he portrayed the movement as generally exhibiting a heavy monotony with poetry which was both facile and pretentious.

However he further claimed that the foundation of Kultintern would reduce the Proletkult movement "not primarily, but exclusively" to a weapon to promote the Bolshevik view of communism.