ABSTRACT
The genealogy of socialist realism, the idealism of the first five year plan, and the Utopian fervor of Soviet society in the 1920's is not to be found in the science of Marxism but in the philosophy of empiriomonism. Soviet socialist idealism was the child of A. Bogdanov's Proletarian Culture movement. The party schools at Capri and Bologna were significant landmarks in Bogdanov's transition from political to cultural concerns. Bogdanov was the first to elaborate an agenda for the Proletarian Culture movement. In 1911, Bogdanov began in earnest to develop the foundation of what would ultimately become the Proletkult. In the February, 1911 number of Vpered, he published an article "Socialism in the Present". In The Philosophy of Struggle, Stanislav Volsky asserted that struggle was a creative act in and of itself. In "On Proletarian Culture", he revealed syndicalist tendencies; he pointed to the general strike as a particularly effective means of raising revolutionary-proletarian consciousness.
