About the book: 1964 / The second volume included articles, reports, speeches by Lunacharsky about Soviet literature. These articles were republished more than once and were included in various collections. His numerous articles on Soviet literature are comparatively less known to today's readers, since for the most part they remained lost for a long time in old magazines, newspapers, and books. Meanwhile, Lunacharsky paid a lot of attention to literary modernity and played a prominent role in the development of Soviet literature, not only as an authoritative critic and theorist, participant in all major literary disputes and discussions, but also as the first People's Commissar of Education. http://ruslit.traumlibrary.net