Fedor Kalinin

Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin (1882-1920) was a Russian revolutionary.

Fedor was the younger brother of Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.

Kalinin was secretary to the "Circle of Proletarian Literature" established by Russian Social Democrats in Paris in 1913.

He was elected to the Central Committee of Proletkult in October 1917. Following the Bolshevik decree of 22 November [O.S. 9 November] 1917, the People's Commissariat for Education (Narkompros) was established with a Department for the Assistance of Independent Class Educational Organisations. Kalinin was the head of this department, with the proviso that the chair and two further members of the Department collegium should be directly elected by Proletkult. He was one of the editors of Proletarskaya Kul'tura with Lebdedv-Polyansky.