The Commissariat of Enlightenment : Soviet organization of education and the arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921 / Sheila Fitzpatrick.

By: Fitzpatrick, Sheila, 1941- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Soviet and East European studiesCambridge : University Press, 1970©1970 Description: xxii, 380 pages : portraits; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521079195 (hardback)Subject(s): Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilievich, 1875-1933 | Russian S.F.S.R. Narodnyĭ komissariat prosveshchenii͡a | Education -- Soviet Union -- HistoryLOC classification: LA831.8 .F56 1970Summary: 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

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