Anna Dodonova

{{short description|Bolshevik activist and intellectual}}

File:The Praesidium of national Proletkult Sept 1918.png, Vladimir Faidysh, Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii, Aleksei Samobytnik-Mashirov I. I. Nikitin, Vasili Ignatov Standing from left to right: Stefan Krivtsov, Kārlis Ozols-Priednieks, Anna Dodonova, N. M. Vasilevskii, Vladimir Kirillov]]

Anna Andreevna Dodonova (1888–1967) was a Bolshevik activist and intellectual. She participated in the Bolshevik Revolution as a member of the Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee. Following the seizure of power she participated in the cultural division of the Moscow Soviet, serving as the head of the culture department. She was a member of the governing Presidium of Proletkult from its establishment in 1918 until disbandment in 1932.{{cite book |last1=Mally |first1=Lynn |title=Culture of the Future |date=1990 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft6m3nb4b2;brand=ucpress}}

She was married to Valerian Pletnev and helped him implement Lenin's plan to subordinate Proletkult as being entirely subordinate to the People's Commissariat for Education (Narkompros), which would in turn be subordinate to the Communist Party.{{cite book |last1=Leach |first1=Robert |title=Revolutionary Theatre |date=1994 |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon |isbn=978-1-134-96842-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=idPJhgN8tZAC&q=Anna+Dodonova+Pletnev&pg=PA30 |language=en}}

Dodonova died in 1967 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.