The cultural revolution was a set of activities carried out in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union, aimed at a radical restructuring of the cultural and ideological life of society. The goal was to form a new type of culture as part of the building of a socialist society,[1][2] including an increase in the proportion of people from proletarian classes in the social composition of the intelligentsia.[3]
The cultural revolution in the Soviet Union as a focused program for the transformation of national culture in practice often stalled and was massively implemented only during the first five-year plans.[4] As a result, in modern historiography there is a traditional, but contested, correlation of the cultural revolution in the Soviet Union only with the 1928–1931 period.[5][6] The cultural revolution in the 1930s was understood as part of a major transformation of society and the national economy, along with industrialization and collectivization.[7] Also, in the course of the cultural revolution, the organization of scientific activity in the Soviet Union underwent considerable restructuring and reorganization.[8][9]
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