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

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: David-Fox, Michael, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press 1997
[2016]
Series:Studies of the Harriman Institute
Subjects:
Communism and education.
Education, Higher > Soviet Union > History.
Communism and education > Soviet Union > History.
Communism and culture > Soviet Union > History.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426990506719
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

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