DOCUMENT No. 31
Degree Regarding the Moscow and Petrograd Conservatories
The Soviet of People's Commissaires decrees:
The Petrograd and Moscow Conservatories are entrusted to the care of the People's Commissariat of Education on an equal basis with all other higher educational institutions, thus dissociating them from the Russian Musical Society. All the properties and inventories of said conservatories, indispensable and adopted for purposes of State Musical Reconstruction, are declared. state property of the people.
Chairman of the Soviet of People's Commissaires,
V. Ulianov (Lenin)
People's Commissary of Education,
A. Lunacharsky.
Chief Clerk of the Soviet of People's Commissaires,
Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich.
Moscow, July 12th, 1918.
DOCUMENT No. 32
A New Anthem
The section for the promotion of proletarian culture—The Proletariat—has announced a competitive examination for a text and music of a "new and original revolutionary proletarian hymn."
VII. Public Intellectual Propaganda
Document No. 33 presents an enormous program destined to familiarize the entire Russian people with the literary works of the past, while Document No. 34 shows that the Soviet Government is also seeking, in more modest ways, to keep the names of the nation's great constantly in the minds of the inhabitants.
DOCUMENT No. 33
Facts About the Activity of the Literary Publication Board,
Attached to the People's Commissariat on Education
On December 13th, 1917, at the session of the Literary Publication Board a committee was named to draft a decree order-
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