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Kultintern

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Kultintern was an international organisation set up to enable the Russian Proletkult organisation to work with an international network of contacts alongside the Comintern. Its goal was to spread "proletarian culture". 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.

Provisional International Bureau

This was set up on 12 August 1920 following the Comintern Congress. The president was Anatoly Lunacharsky and the General Secretary Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii. The Bureau included several international delegates:

  • Wilhelm Herzog and Max Barthel (Germany)
  • John Reed (USA)
  • Tom Quelch and William McLaine (Great Britain)
  • Karl Toman (Austria)
  • War Van Overstraeten (Belgium)
  • Raymond Lefebvre (France)
  • Nicola Bombacci (Italy)
  • Haavard Langseth (Norway)
  • Walther Bringolf and Jules Humbert-Droz (Switzerland).
  • References

    Kultintern Wikipedia