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Lenin’s Cultural Policies: Aims and Results
Lenin's Cultural Policies
Control of the Arts and Media
Aim: Use culture as propaganda to spread Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Policy:
Press censorship from 1917; Bolsheviks controlled newspapers, radio, publishing.
Writers and artists encouraged to serve the revolution (“Proletkult” movement).
Result:
Culture became a tool of indoctrination
Independent voices suppressed, though some avant-garde artists initially flourished under state sponsorship.
Proletkult (Proletarian Culture Movement)
Aim: Create a new, revolutionary culture for the working class, free from “bourgeois” traditions.
Policy: Led by Alexander Bogdanov; promoted workers’ clubs, art, theatre, and literacy campaigns.
Result: Expanded cultural participation, but by 1920 Lenin restricted Proletkult, fearing it undermined central party control.
Proletkult (Proletarian Culture Movement)
Education and Literacy
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Lenin viewed culture as a powerful tool for shaping society and consolidating Bolshevik power. The Bolsheviks believed that controlling culture was essential for building a socialist society and spreading their ideology.
The Bolsheviks saw culture as a means of social engineering, aiming to create a new "Soviet man" with socialist values
They believed that art and culture should serve the revolution, rather than exist for their own sake
Lenin famously said, "Art belongs to the people"
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Think of culture as the "software" that runs on the "hardware" of society - by controlling the software, the Bolsheviks hoped to control how people thought and behaved.
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This approach to culture was revolutionary in itself, as previous regimes had never attempted such comprehensive control over cultural life.
