Eden and Cedar Paul were an upper class Fabian socialist couple, prolific travelers and translators, swept up in the Bolshevik Revolution and active Communist Party of Great Britain of the 1920s, wrote this book in 1921 and introduced English-speakers to the term. A history of workers’ education as much as a treatise on the new movement in Russia, the book was not widely read in the US, this was its only edition, but became hugely influential in other countries, like Paul’s England and Japan, where it inspired a generation of student radicals in the 1920s.

Proletcult (Proletarian Culture) by Eden and Cedar Paul. Thomas Seltzer Publishers, New York. 1921.

Contents: I) EDUCATION & THE CLASS STRUGGLE, Do Your Own Thinking, Class Consciousness Imperative, Simplification and Concentration of Aim, Tendency in Science and in Education, Proletarian Science as a Call to Arms, II) WHAT IS PROLETCULT?, Terminology, Culture, Phaseology of Culture, III) WANDERINGS IN THE EDUCATIONAL WILDERNESS, From Ecclesiasticus to Marx, Down Among the Masses, IV) FALSE ROUTES, The Elementary Education Act of 1870, The Adult School Movement, Cooperative Education, Ruskin College, The Worker Educational Association, V) THE PLEBS LEAGUE & THE CENTRAL LABOUR COLLEGE, Educational Work of the Socialist Labour Party, The Rift in the Lute at Ruskin, The Plebs Magazine and the Plebs League, The Central Labour College, VI) THE FERMENT OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION, Ferrer and the Modern School, The French Syndicalists, Workers Education in the Americas, Germany in Theory, Germany in Practice, VII) PKOLETCULT IN CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, General Principles, The Socialist Sunday School and the Proletarian School, Socialist and Communist Youth, VIII) PROLETCULT IN RUSSIA, Lunacharsky Ulianova and Poliansky, Bogdanoff, Proletarian Ethics, Proletarian Art, Proletcult at Work, IX) YEAST IN THE BRITISH ISLES, Proletcult Classes, The New Labour Colleges, Proletcult Councils, The Plebs League in 1920-21, The Burston Strike School, The Workers Trade Union Educational Trade Union Committee, More Trouble Brewing at Ruskin College, X) THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY, Methods of Teaching, Proletarian Heritage, What is the New Psychology?, The Ego Complex and the Herd Complex, The Control of the Subconscious, XI) THE REVEILLE, Appendix, Bibliography, Educational and Other Organizations, Labour Colleges and Proletcult Councils, Socialist and Communist Youth (Including Child Education), Miscellaneous. 166 pages.

PDF of original book: https://archive.org/download/proletcultprolet00paul/proletcultprolet00paul.pdf