Anatoly Lunacharsky

Anatoly Lunacharsky having his portrait painted. Kislovodsk. Summer 1926.

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (Анато́лий Васи́льевич Лунача́рский, 23 November 1875 – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Education responsible for culture and education. He was active as an art critic and journalist throughout his career.

Publications

• co-editor, Pechat' i revoliutsiia, 8 vols., Moscow: Gosizdat, 1921. Journal.
• http://ruslit.traumlibrary.net/page/lunacharskiy.html

Literature

• Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts Under Lunacharsky, Cambridge University Press, 1970, xxii+380 pp. A biography of Lunacharsky and study of an early Soviet ministry.
• Angelina Lucento, "The Conflicted Origins of Soviet Visual Media: Painting, Photography, and Communication in Russia, 1925‑1932", Cahiers du Monde Russe 56(2-3): "Communiquer en URSS et en Europe socialiste", eds. Kristin Roth‑Ey and Larissa Zakharova, 2015, pp 401-428.

Links

• Lunacharsky's texts in Marxists Internet Archive
• Portraits
• Lunacharsky at Wikipedia