Statesman.
Minister of the Enlightenment, responsible for culture and education in Soviet Russia. He made attempts to preserve Russian cultural heritage and protect intelligentsia from Stalin’s purges.
Background
Lived: 1875-1933.
Anatoly Lunacharsky was born in Poltava, Ukraine. He studied social sciences at the Zurich University, where he also befriended with Rosa Luxemburg.
Lunacharsky joined the Bosheviks in 1902 and briefly became the supporter of Alexander Bogdanov against Lenin. He also married Bogdanov’s sister Anna and sympathized with Mensheviks. He was a very passionate and culture-loving person.
Career
After the October Revolution Lenin appointed him as Comissar of the Enlightenment (1917-29). He was responsible for education and culture. Lunacharsky agitated for creating a brand new proletarian literature and system of education.
He protested when the Bolsheviks were bombing Moscow Kremlin in 1917. He protected several creative people of Russian cultural avant-garde such as Meyerhold, Malevich, Tatlinm and Mayakovsky. He was one of the founders of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Lunacharsky was also a personal associate with H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Romain Rolland. His devotion resulted in the increase of general literacy rate in Russia.
Death
Lunacharsky also served as Soviet Ambassador to the League of Nations in 1930. He was then appointed an Ambassador of Spain, but he died shortly before going there.
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Statesman.
Minister of the Enlightenment, responsible for culture and education in Soviet Russia. He made attempts to preserve Russian cultural heritage and protect intelligentsia from Stalin’s purges.
Background
Lived: 1875-1933.
Anatoly Lunacharsky was born in Poltava, Ukraine. He studied social sciences at the Zurich University, where he also befriended with Rosa Luxemburg.
Lunacharsky joined the Bosheviks in 1902 and briefly became the supporter of Alexander Bogdanov against Lenin. He also married Bogdanov’s sister Anna and sympathized with Mensheviks. He was a very passionate and culture-loving person.
Career
After the October Revolution Lenin appointed him as Comissar of the Enlightenment (1917-29). He was responsible for education and culture. Lunacharsky agitated for creating a brand new proletarian literature and system of education.
He protested when the Bolsheviks were bombing Moscow Kremlin in 1917. He protected several creative people of Russian cultural avant-garde such as Meyerhold, Malevich, Tatlinm and Mayakovsky. He was one of the founders of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Lunacharsky was also a personal associate with H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Romain Rolland. His devotion resulted in the increase of general literacy rate in Russia.
Death
Lunacharsky also served as Soviet Ambassador to the League of Nations in 1930. He was then appointed an Ambassador of Spain, but he died shortly before going there.
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