A study of Lunacharsky's commissariat which ran both education and the arts in Bolshevik Russia.

Russia, 1910. Leo Tolstoy lies dying in Astapovo, a remote railway station. Members of the press from around the world have descended upon this sleepy hamlet to

A history of Soviet education policy 1921-34, this is a sequel to the author's highly praised Commissariat of Enlightenment.

Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activi

When Lenin asked, "Who will beat whom?" (Kto kogo?), he had no plan to wage revolutionary class war in culture. Many young Communists thought differently, howev