Revolution of the mind : higher learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 /

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 h...

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Main Author: David-Fox, Michael, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Studies of the Harriman Institute Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Glossary of Terminology, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
  • INTRODUCTION. The Bolshevik Revolution and the Cultural Front
  • 1 Communist Institutions and Revolutionary Missions in Higher Learning
  • 2 Power and Everyday Life at Sverdlov Communist University
  • 3 Political Culture at the Institute of Red Professors
  • 4 Science, Orthodoxy, and the Quest for Hegemony at the Socialist (Communist) Academy
  • CONCLUSION. The Great Break in Higher Learning
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index