Fedor Kalinin


Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin was a Russian revolutionary and writer.
Fedor was the younger brother of Mikhail Kalinin. He was originally employed as a weaver, a job his father had. He attended the Capri Party School where he met Alexander Bogdanov and Anatoly Lunacharsky and with them set up Vpered'. He wrote concerning philosophy with an approach adapted by Bogdanov in The Philosophy of Living Experience published in 1913.
Kalinin was secretary to the "Circle of Proletarian Literature" established by the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in Paris in 1913.
He was elected to the Central Committee of Proletkult in October 1917. Following the Bolshevik decree of, the People's Commissariat for Education was established with a Department for the Assistance of Independent Class Educational Organisations. Kalinin was the head of the department, but the chair and two further members of the Department collegium would be directly elected by Proletkult. He was one of the editors of Proletarskaya Kul'tura with Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii.

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