Proletarskaia Kultura (Proletarian Culture) or Proletkult, consisted of architects, composers, artists and writers. The consortium was created in 1917 by Alexandr Bogdanov, director of the Socialist Academy of Social Sciences, and by Aleksei Gastev, a writer and theoretician who headed the Central Institute of Labor. Proletkult was to provide the foundation for a worker-based art form, "liberated from bourgeois, pre-Soviet culture." Mass-production and machine art were staples of the Proletkult ideal. Its membership surged ...

The Mospoligraf 15th Lithography Workshop was located at 23 Bol'shaia Sadovaia Street in Moscow. Its history begins with Ivan Mikhailovich Mashistov (1851-1914) the founder and managing director of Mashistov Typolithography Partnership. His firm printed magazines, historical books, and during the First World War, it printed and published patriotic posters. Under the Soviets, Mashistov Lithography was nationalized and it became the 15th Lithographic Workshop. In 1921, when the Soviet Union consolidated its largest and best printing operations into ...