The Commissariat of Enlightenment

Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917–1921

Sheila Fitzpatrick author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:6th Jun '02

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A study of Lunacharsky's commissariat which ran both education and the arts in Bolshevik Russia.

A study in the formation and development of a Soviet government institution after the Revolution of October 1917. The commissariat - which was responsible both for education and the arts - was the main channel of communication between the government and Bolshevik party on the one hand, and the Russian intelligentsia on the other.A study in the formation and development of a Soviet government institution after the Revolution of October 1917. The commissariat - which was responsible both for education and the arts - was the main channel of communication between the government and Bolshevik party on the one hand, and the Russian intelligentsia on the other. The commissar, Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, was, in his own words, 'a Bolshevik among intellectuals and an intellectual among Bolsheviks'; his closest colleagues were Lenin's wife Krupskaya and the historian Pokrovsky.

ISBN: 9780521524384

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 24mm

Weight: 570g

408 pages