Putting Up Moscow: The Commissarat of Education in Kirov, 1941–1943
Journal: The Carl Beck papers in Russian and East European studies
Year: 2011

During World War II, a quarter of million people and many factories, institutions, and government agencies evacuated to the region and city of Kirov (known as Viatka before December 1934) and located 530 miles northeast of Moscow. Their number included the Russian Republic’s Commissariat of Education (Narkompros). Putting Up Moscow focuses on the resistance by local, municipal, and regional organs in Kirov, when confronted with Narkompros’s demands of them. While the commissariat at fi rst recei