*From The Pen Of Early Soviet Culture Commissar Anatol Lunacharsky- Yakov Sverdlov

Click on title to link to early Bolshevik Culture and Education Commissar Anatol Lunacharsky's profile of Yakov Sverdlov from his 1923 "Revolutionary Silhouettes". Lunarcharsky may have been a "soft" Bolshevik but he had insights into the Bolshevik leadership that helped explain the successes (and some of the subsequent political problems) of that leadership.