| The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts Under Lunacharsky, October 1917 1921 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Fitzpatrick, Sheila (Author), Sheila, Fitzpatrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521524385 ISBN-13: 9780521524384 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Education | History - History | World - General - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 370.947 |
| Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 5.44" W x 8.56" (1.16 lbs) 408 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |