Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 - Brossura

David-Fox, Michael

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ISBN 10: 1501707175 ISBN 13: 9781501707179

Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy and cultural politics after the Revolution explains how new communist institutions rose to parallel and rival conventional higher learning from the Academy of Sciences to the universities. Beginning with the creation of the first party school by intellectuals on the island of Capri in 1909, David-Fox argues, the Bolshevik cultural project was tightly linked to party educational institutions. He provides the first account of the early history and politics of three major institutions founded after the Revolution: Sverdlov Communist University, where the quest to transform everyday life gripped the student movement; the Institute of Red Professors, where the Bolsheviks sought to train a new communist intellectual or red specialist; and the Communist Academy, headquarters for a planned, collectivist, proletarian science.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael David-Fox is Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of History at Georgetown University and a founding and executive editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is the author of several books, most recently Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Soviet Russia.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cornell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1501707175
• ISBN 13: 9781501707179
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 298
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile