But, in all this, the arts were thriving, feeding on the stuff of ideas. Amongst the loudest avant-garde voices of the time were the Futurists with their provocative antics. The Proletarian Culture movement, Proletkult, was also in full swing after being established in 1917 with plans to engender a new proletarian cultural universal. By 1919, it became an enormous movement with half a million participants.4 Their ideas included god-building, tectology, and human mechanization. And it was these ideas that form the core of Zamyatin’s We.
