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Anatoly Lunacharsky

Anatoly Lunacharsky
Анатолий Луначарский
Lunacharsky in 1925
People's Commissar for Education
In office
26 October 1917 – September 1929
PremierVladimir Lenin
Alexei Rykov
Preceded byNone (position established)
Succeeded byAndrei Bubnov
Personal details
Born
Anatoly Aleksandrovich Antonov

23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1875
Poltava, Russian Empire
Died26 December 1933(1933-12-26) (aged 58)
Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1933)
Alma materUniversity of Zurich
Occupation
  • Politician
  • essayist
  • journalist

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (Russian: Анато́лий Васи́льевич Лунача́рский, born Anatoly Aleksandrovich Antonov; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1875 – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar (Narkompros) responsible for the Ministry of Education as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist, and journalist throughout his career.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

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  3. ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (1970). The Commisariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–2, 11, 14, 130–131, 150, 156, 158, 177, 347 (Krupskaya). ISBN 978-0-521-52438-4. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
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  6. ^ Bergman, Jay (August 1990). "The Image of Jesus in the Russian Revolutionary Movement: The Case of Russian Marxism*". International Review of Social History. 35 (2): 220–248. doi:10.1017/S0020859000009883. ISSN 1469-512X.

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