The newspaper revealed the instigator of this “system of calculated moral depravity” as Anatoly Lunacharsky, first head of the Soviet People’s Commissariat for Enlightenment, a department ...

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Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was reading Mystery Bouffe to a group that included the Commissar of Enlightenment, Anatoly Lunacharsky, and the famous theater director, Vsevolod Meyerhold. The play was ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. Why did Vladimir Lenin consider film the most important of the arts? In February 1922 ...