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LUNACHARSKII, Anatolii Vasilevich (1875-1933), Vy

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Moscow, January 2-December 25, 1927. Large 4to (297 x 225 mm). Illustrations, some colored. Contemporary half cloth, original wrappers bound in. Condition: some wrappers shaved with slight loss, half cloth binding scuffed, joints split, extremities worn, spine chipped. one complete volume of the popular and influential soviet cultural journal. Lunacharskii was a Russian Marxist revolutionary who was appointed the first Soviet People's Commissar of Enlightenment by Lenin himself. He and Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya were responsible for overseeing Soviet culture and education. Because he was sympathetic with Modernism, the Russian avant-garde flourished while he was in charge of the arts. Red Niva was a general interest magazine that covered literature, art, entertainment, sports and politics but always with a strongly Soviet slant.

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