Title Revolution of the mind : higher learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 / Michael David-Fox

Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 298 pages) : illustrations Series Studies of the Harriman Institute Studies of the Harriman Institute. Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index Notes English Print version record In Project MUSE - Cornell University Press Open Access Books Collection Project MUSE Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR Subject Education, Higher -- Soviet Union -- History Communism and education -- Soviet Union -- History Communism and culture -- Soviet Union -- History Education -- History. Communism and culture Communism and education Education, Higher Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501705380 1501705385 9781501705397 1501705393 9781501707179 1501707175

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