# Lunacharsky — My Disillusionment in Russia character guide

> Lunacharsky in My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Evidently Lunacharsky

**First appearance:** 0006-iv-moscow-first-impressions

## Who they are

Bolshevik Commissar of Education, encountered in cultural and political contexts.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_professional_

Lunacharsky is a Bolshevik commissar of education who interacts with the narrator in an official, often bureaucratic capacity.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_professional_

Lunacharsky is a Bolshevik commissar of education who interacts with the narrator in an official, often bureaucratic capacity.

## In the story

### [Moscow: First Impressions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/iv-moscow-first-impressions)

The Commissar of Education, gracious and idealistic, but increasingly hampered by party machinery and unable to implement his good intentions.

### [XII: Beneath the Surface](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xii-beneath-the-surface)

Lunacharsky is seen as a helpless cog in the Communist machine, his best efforts constantly curtailed.

### [XX: Poltava](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xx-poltava)

Mentioned as the recipient of Korolenko's letters and as having issued a document supporting the Save-the-Children Society.

### [XXV: Archangel and Return](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxv-archangel-and-return)

Mentioned as the person to contact for sending paints and canvas to the Archangel chairman.

### [Education and Culture](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxx-education-and-culture)

Another foster-father of the Proletcult who acknowledged its failure; his plays were elaborately staged even during famine.

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