Fitzpatric Sheila. The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 408 p. — (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Book 2). — ISBN10: 0521524385; ISBN13: 978-0521524384.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.Lunacharsky
The establishment of Narkompros
School education
Technical and higher education
Proletkult
The arts
Towards reorganization of Narkompros
Reorganization
Narkompros after reorganization
Narkompros and the New Economic Policy