The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts Under Lunacharsky, October 1917 1921 by Fitzpatrick, Sheila (9780521524384)

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

by Fitzpatrick, Sheila , Sheila, Fitzpatrick

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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.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

Edition Number

Revised

ISBN

0521524385

EAN

9780521524384

Publisher

CAMBRIDGE

Publication Date

30 Jun 2002

Pages

408

Weight (kg)

0.53

Dimensions (cm)

21.7 x 13.8 x 2.6

About Author

Sheila Fitzpatrick, the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History at the University of Chicago, is the author of many books on Soviet social, cultural, and political history, including The Russian Revolution, Stalin's Peasants, Everyday Stalinism, and, most recently, Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia (2005). With Robert Gellately, she edited Accusatory Practices. Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789 1989. A past president of AAASS, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Australian