[lbo-talk] Early Soviet fairytales

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 29 06:10:29 PDT 2013


, Marv Gandall
> Inside the Rainbow: how Soviet Russia tried to reinvent fairytales
> By Marina Lewycka
> Financial Times
> September 27 2013
>


>
> The newspaper revealed the instigator of this “system of calculated moral depravity” as Anatoly Lunacharsky, first head of the Soviet People’s Commissariat for Enlightenment, a department known as Narkompros (after the second world war, it became the more prosaic Ministry of Education).
>
> A

^^^^^^^^ CB: I believe, N. Krupskaya, Lenin's wife, was also a leader in the "system of correcting the ideas of centuries of ruling classes" (giggles)

What's all this Communist and Soviet nostalgia in bourgeois papers ?



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list