The People's Commissariat for Education (or Narkompros ; Russian : Народный комиссариат просвещения, Наркомпрос , directly translated as the "People's Commissariat for Enlightenment") was the Soviet agency charged with the administration of public education and most other issues related to culture. In 1946, it was transformed into the Ministry of Education . Its first head was Anatoly Lunacharsky . However he described Nadezhda Krupskaya as the "soul of Narkompros". Mikhail Pokrovsky , Dmitry Leshchenko and Evgraf Litkens also played important roles.
6-909: The Academic Centre , or the centre for general theoretical and programme direction, was one of the organs of the People's Commissariat for Education in the Soviet Russia . On the strength of the " Statute of the People's Commissariat for Education ", approved by the Council of People's Commissars on February 11, 1921, the Academic Centre was to consist of a scientific section ( State Scientific Council ) with three subsections–scientific-political, scientific-technical and scientific-pedagogical—and an arts section ( Chief Arts Committee ) with five subsections: literature, theatre, music, figurative arts and
12-592: The agit-trains and agit-boats, that circulated over all Russia spreading Revolution and revolutionary arts. He also gave support to Constructivism 's theatrical experiments and the initiatives such as the ROSTA Windows , revolutionary posters designed and written by Mayakovsky, Rodchenko, and others. Izo-Narkompros also published Iskusstvo kommuny (Art of the Commune) of which 19 issues appeared between 7 December 1918 and April 1919. Lenin saw film as
18-582: The cinema. In addition, the Central Archives Board and the Central Museum Board were part of the Academic Centre. This Soviet Union –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . People%27s Commissariat for Education Lunacharsky protected most of the avant-garde artists such as Vladimir Mayakovsky , Kazimir Malevich , Vladimir Tatlin and Vsevolod Meyerhold . Despite his efforts,
24-467: The collegium (deliberative organ) and the section proper (executive organ). The first collegium was headed by Vladimir Tatlin and included Kasimir Malevich , Ilya Mashkov , Nadezhda Udaltsova , Olga Rozanova , Alexander Rodchenko , Wassily Kandinsky . It was subdivided into a number of subsections. Lunacharsky directed some of the great experiments in public arts after the Revolution such as
30-670: The official policy after Joseph Stalin put him in disgrace. Narkompros had seventeen sections, in addition to the main ones related to general education, e.g., Some of these evolved into separate entities, others discontinued. Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii , as chair of the Organizing Bureau for the National Proletkult argued that Narkompros, as a state organ, had responsibilities for the whole of society, whereas Proletkult asserted its autonomy as an organisation set up specifically for workers class. However, there
36-441: Was concern with "parallelism" - the situation which arose when similar work was carried out in parallel by different organisations. In early 1918 Narkompros gave Proletkult a budget of over 9,200,000 rubles, whereas the entire Adult Education Division received 32,500,000 rubles. The Izo-Narkompros (Изо-наркомпрос), or the section of visual arts (отдел изобразительных искусств) created on 29 January 1918. It consisted of two parts:
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