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Fitzpatrick, Sheila, 1941-,

The Commissariat of Enlightenment : Soviet organization of education and the arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921 / Sheila Fitzpatrick. - xxii, 380 pages : portraits; 23 cm. - Soviet and East European studies . - Soviet and East European studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-373) and index.

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. https://www.amazon.com.au/Commissariat-Enlightenment-Organization-Education-Lunacharsky/dp/0521079195

ISBN: 0521079195

Subjects--Personal Names:
Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilievich, 1875-1933

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Russian S.F.S.R. Narodnyĭ komissariat prosveshchenii͡a

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Education--History.--Soviet Union

LC Class. No.: LA831.8 / .F56 1970