The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921 / Edition 1

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521524384
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/06/2002
Series:	Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies , #2
Edition description:	FIRST/REPRINT
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d)

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.