People's Commissariat for Education

Narkompros had seventeen sections,[2] in addition to the main ones related to general education, e.g., Some of these evolved into separate entities, others discontinued.

[3] The Izo-Narkompros (Изо-наркомпрос), or the section of visual arts (отдел изобразительных искусств) created on 29 January 1918.

The first collegium was headed by Vladimir Tatlin and included Kasimir Malevich, Ilya Mashkov, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Olga Rozanova, Alexander Rodchenko, Wassily Kandinsky.

He also gave support to Constructivism's theatrical experiments and the initiatives such as the ROSTA Windows, revolutionary posters designed and written by Mayakovsky, Rodchenko, and others.

[5] Lenin saw film as the most important medium for educating the masses in the ways, means and successes of communism.