Education and Art in Soviet Russia/Part 1
Education and Art in Soviet Russia
Being a Set of Important Decrees and Documents Published
in Russia, with a Few Explanatory Remarks for
American Readers
With a Foreword by Max Eastman
I. The Organization of the Educational System
After the installation of proletarian dictatorship in Russia, following the proletarian revolution of November 7, 1917, (October 25, old style), all branches of the government were of course reorganized on the basis of the new source from which the government derived its power. The application of this process of transformation to the Department of Education is announced in the following Document (No. 1), issued by the newly appointed People’s Commissaire of Education, A. V. Lunacharsky, one of the most distinguished publicists and scholars of Russia:
- Document 1: Circular of the People's Commissaire of Education to All Regional Commissioners of Education
- Document 2: Decree of the Workers' and Peasants' Government: Provision for the Organization of Popular Education in the Russian Socialist Soviet Republic
- Document 3: School Reform: Commissary Lepeshinsky's Paper, Read at the First All-Russian Congress of Teachers-Internationalists, June 2, 1918
- Document 4: Regulation of the Soviet of People's Commissaires Concerning Standard Remuneration for Teachers' Labors
- Document 5: Regulation of the Presidium of the Moscow Soviet of Workmen's Deputies, Dated May 15th, 1918
- Document 6: An Appeal by the Section of Independent Proletarian Cultural-Educational Organizations in the Commissariat of People's Education
- Document 7: Schools for Workmen
- Document 8: Regulation Concerning Admission to a Higher School (University) of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- Document 9: Declaration of Principles of a Socialist School
- Document 10: The Workers' School and the School Servants
- Document 11: Experimental Vocational School
- Document 12: The Institute for Child Study