Narkompros
People's Commissariat of Enlightenment [Narodnyi komissariat prosveshcheniia] was a cultural organization founded in Soviet Russia in November 1917 shortly after the October Revolution, replacing the former Ministry of Culture.
Narkompros was directed by the writer and politician Anatoly Lunacharsky and was in charge of general cultural and educational policy. It contained several sections, including a Visual Arts Section called IZO Narkompros, sections devoted to the cinema (FOTO-KINO), literature (LITO), music (MUSO) and the theatre (TEO). In the early years, partly because of Lunacharsky's tolerance and liberalism, Narkompros maintained a fairly independent stance, but by the late 1920s (especially after Lunacharsky's departure in 1929) it had become part of the Communist apparatus. [1]
- See also
- External links
- Khudozhestvennaya zhizn', Narkompros bulletin, 1919-20, 5 numbers.
- Издательские марки отделов Наркомпроса
- Narkompros at Wikipedia
