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

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

Sheila Fitzpatrick (Author)

9780521524384, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 6 June 2002

408 pages
21.6 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.57 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]