ANATOL VASSILIEVITCH LUNACHARSKY
AND RUSSIAN CULTURE
ANATOL VASSILIEVITCH LUNACHARSKY
AND RUSSIAN CULTURE
“Oh, happy earth! Out of the blood of generations
Life yet will blossom, innocent and wise,
And thou, my planet, shall be cleansed of lamentations,
A jade-green star in the moon-silvered skies.”
Thus wrote the Soviet Minister of Education, Anatol Lunacharsky, in those remote days when a revolution was only a vague goal and when he could not believe that in his own lifetime a day would come when he would be torn from his quiet study and forced to put his dreams into practice, or as near into practice as dreams ever reach.