‘The Death of Comrade Lunacharsky: A Brief Appreciation’ by Moissaye J. Olgin from The New Masses. Vol. 10 No. 2. January 8, 1934.

Among the very first actions of the Soviets, the day after taking power, was to establish a system of universal and comprehensive education with Anatoly Lunacharsky, a Marxist intellectual, erudite and with an expansive, educated, and sophisticated appreciation of society’s arts, particularly its literature. He would be Commissar of Education from its founding until 1929. […]