The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Sheila Fitzpatrick

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The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Sheila Fitzpatrick

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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ISBN 13 9780521524384
ISBN 10 0521524385
Title The Commissariat of Enlightenment
Author Sheila Fitzpatrick
Series Cambridge Russian Soviet And Post-Soviet Studies
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2002-06-06
Number of pages 408
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