The Commissariat of Enlightenment
The Commissariat of Enlightenment
Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917–1921
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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.
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June 2002Paperback
9780521524384
408 pages
216 × 138 × 24 mm
0.57kg
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Table of Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Lunacharsky
- 2. The establishment of Narkompros
- 3. School education
- 4. Technical and higher education
- 5. Proletkult
- 6. The arts
- 7. Towards reorganization of Narkompros
- 8. Reorganization
- 9. Narkompros after reorganization
- 10. Narkompros and the New Economic Policy
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
