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The formation and development of a soviet government after the revolution of October 1917, the commissariat was responsible both for education and arts which was the main channel of communication between the government and Bolshevik party on 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' (Bolshevik: Russian “one of the majority”) |
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The commissar, Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, who was a Russian author, publicist and Politian who did the major part to ensure the preservation of works of art, culture, and education during the civil war of 1918 – 20. In March 1917 he joined Lenin and Trotsky in Russia and was appointed peoples' commissar for education. This position enabled him to preserve many historic buildings and works of art from destruction. His interest in the theatre encouraged a number of spectacular experiments and innovations. In 1933 Lunacharsky was appointed Soviet ambassador to Spain. Of his many dramatic works, three were translated into English and collected in Three Plays (1923). |
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Proletkult (Russian ”Proletarian Culture”) is the organization established in the soviet union in 1917, with the leadership of Lunacharsky, to make the foundation for a truly proletarian art. This Proletarian art is created by proletarians for proletarians and this would be free of all leftovers of bourgeois culture. As to the work of preservation of arts and culture, the proletkult established many workshops and other educational seminars all over the country. This enabled and taught the workers to read, write plays, novels, and poems. This epoch was one of the significant in 1917, Soviet Union. After the revolution, all the hard work by Bolsheviks to introduce social and cultural changes would stress two basic facts: the existence of wide disagreements and debates among the Bolsheviks themselves regarding what kind of measures were most urgent and desirable, and pointlessness or inapplicability of nearly all of their conflicting plans in view of the disturbing political, social, cultural and economic conditions of the time in Soviet Russia. |
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The Russian revolution after 1917, the culture and religion under communism is another major part of the popular enlightenment in the Soviet Union. Bolsheviks changed the political and economic order, but they attached a great meaning to every part of education, culture and religion. Among some of the interesting points, they tried to regulate all the publishing, including newspapers books and also performing arts. In 1922, they setup a central office to expurgate all media before printing. The Bolsheviks allowed artists and writers to be creative and write any matter of subject as long as they did not engaged the political oppose. In early 1920s, this resulted in a major innovation in literature and the arts that contrasted political strictness. . Publishing, theatre and the film industry were nationalized; virtually all surviving cultural organizations received state subsidies. |
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Soviet Union’s education after 1917, the communists carried out radical changes to curriculum and the structure. They placed all schools in charge of the commissariat of enlightenment after nationalizing them. Here the teachers lost the ability to punish the students. this time Higher education, higher learning institutes were introduced and they were open to anyone who preferred. |
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'''Sources |
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Abbott Gleason, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites. Bolshevik culture : experiment and order in the Russian Revolution. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1985 |
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Fitzpatrick, Shelia. The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky. Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition (June 30, 2002)''' |
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