The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts Under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521524385
• ISBN13: 9780521524384
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.6"