Marxist Writers: Anatoly Lunacharsky. Anatoly Lunacharsky. etching. Biography. Revolutionary Silhouettes. Table of Contents · Foreword 1. Anatoli Lunacharsky, the son of a local government official, was born in Poltava, Ukraine, in When he was fifteen he joined an illegal Marxist study-circle in . He left Russia with the official blessing and warning of the Soviet Minister Anatoly Lunacharsky: “You are running away from events, and these.
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After the February Revolution ofwhich resulted in the downfall of the Russian Empire and declaration of the republic, Anatoly Lunacharsky left his family in Switzerland and returned to Russia. Despite a year age difference, Lunacharsky left his family and married Natalya, who already had a daughter, Irina, from her first lunadharsky.
InAsteroid was named after Lunacharsky. Anatoly Lunacharsky made an attempt to encourage old Russian intellectuals to cooperate with the new Soviet regime, and tried to protect scientists from persecution.
Lunacharsky was known as an art connoisseur and a critic. Trotsky reacted to some of Lunacharsky’s opinions in his own autobiography, My Life. Following his revival, a number of streets and institutions were named after Lunacharsky, as lunacharsjy as the asteroiddiscovered in Self-Education of the Workers: Propose any changes to the talk page.
Learn More in these related Britannica articles: Retrieved 14 March In he was appointed ambassador to Spaina post he never assumed as he died en route. His work in this post was considerable but also controversial. He published with Friedrich Engels …. Krupskaya and Anatoly V. They met in Lunacharsky contributed to the development of socialist culture, particularly in the areas of education, theatre, cinema and literature. Both Lunacharsky and Lenin agreed that the cultural organizations should be nationalized.
The popularity of Anatoly Lunacharsky declined after his death, luncharsky only after the s, thanks to the work of his daughter Irina Lunacharsky, his name was remembered and became a symbol of the Bolsheviks era.
Summary [ edit ] Description Anatoly Lunacharsky. He tried anqtoly save historical and cultural monuments and even wanted to resign in a sign of protest against the bombing of the Kremlin during the October Revolution.
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Please try again later. During that era, Lunacharsky was viewed by the Soviet intelligentsia as an educated, refined, and tolerant Soviet politician. This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China not Hong Kong or MacaoGermany, Mexico, and Switzerland.
In Anatoly Lunacharsky moved to Paris. In Februaryhe moved in with Alexander Bogdanovwho was working in a mental hospital in VologdaRussia. After the outbreak of World War I inLunacharsky adopted an internationalist antiwar position, which put him on a course of convergence with Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
We welcome suggested improvements to anaatoly of our articles. Like other internationalist social democrats returning from abroad, he briefly joined the Mezhraiontsy before they merged with the Bolsheviks in July—August Anatoly Lunacharsky lunacahrsky several plays, but their artistic value remains disputable. How about its variations? As the first Commissar of Enlightenment after the Bolshevik Revolution ofhe was credited with preserving much of Russia’s cultural heritage.
In Julythe Kerensky government jailed him.
Lunacharsky decided to support the latter. Prokofiev was just one of many artists including Chaliapin, Gretchaninovand others, who were free to travel. Theses on the Problems of Marxist Criticism. He focused on analyzing works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, among other materialists, and was greatly influenced by the idealistic views of the lecturer Richard Avenarius.
Lunacharsky corresponded with H. When Stalin came fully to power inLunacharsky was dismissed as commissar of culture and education.
In he was appointed Soviet Ambassador to Spain, but died on the outward journey. Retrieved from ” http: He became known as a protector of Soviet culture and intelligentsia.