V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the Plenum of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on Proletcult [1]

Confirming the resolution of the Politbureau, the C.C.
approves in the main of the draft instructions drawn up in pursuance
thereof by the Chief Committee for Political

Education [2] and directs the Politbureau to edit it for a more exact
expression of the main idea that the work of Proletcult in the field of
scientific and political education merges with that of the People’s
Commissariat for Education and the Gubernia Education Departments, while in
the artistic field (music, the theatre, fine arts and literature) it
remains autonomous, and the leading role of the commissariat’s organs,
carefully screened by the R.C.P., is to be retained only for combating
patently bourgeois deviations.

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin’s draft was adopted by the CC. plenum on November 10, 1920,
practically without amendments.

[2]

^^ See note 255.^^