Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the new Soviet anti-religious campaign now in full cry (TIME,Jan. 14), Commissar of Education Anatole Lunacharsky released, last week, a cinema drama called Salamander. Heroine: Mme. Lunacharsky, strikingly beautiful, known to her intimates as "Natalia." Author: M. Lunarharsky...
...erroneous U. S. impression that Soviet housewives have no servants was corrected, last week, by earnest, diligent Commissar of Health Nikolai A. Semashko in somewhat startling fashion. With the total candor of an authentic savant, Comrade Semashko stated...
...Russian note, despatched by Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, raised pointed objections to the Treaty, but indicated that Soviet Russia would sign anyway, for better or worse...
John Dewey was setting out with his huge casualness "to have a look at Russia." Of course the news of his impending visit had elicited from Soviet Commissar of Education Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky a formal invitation and an expression of enthusiasm that the Second Confucius was coming. Comrade Lunacharsky is a Red, but he knows his Deweys. A dynamo of energy, he not only directs the Commissariat (Ministry) for Education, but writes plays, is President of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers & Composers, and acts as supervising editor of three Moscow publications: Novy Mir (The New World), Krestyanka (The Peasant...
There, in an epigram, is almost the core of Dewey's concept of education: a concept about which he will soon be shrewdly questioned by Red Commissar Lunacharsky, guiding educator of the largest and perhaps least tutored nation on the globe...