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War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power - The Center, Periphery, and Kirov's Pedagogical Institute 1941-1952 (Hardcover)
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War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power - The Center, Periphery, and Kirov's Pedagogical Institute 1941-1952 (Hardcover)
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War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power examines the history of
the Pedagogical Institute, located in the USSR's Kirov region from
1941 to 1952. Holmes reveals a tangled and complex relationship of
local, regional, and national agencies. While it recognizes the
immense strength of the center, it emphasizes a contentious
diffusion, although not a confusion, of authority. In so doing, it
departs from traditional models of Soviet power with their neatly
drawn vertical and horizontal lines of command. It also
demonstrates institutional and personal behavior simultaneously
consistent with and at odds with a triumphalist wartime narrative.
The Nazi invasion of Soviet-held territory in 1941 set off a
massive evacuation eastward that included the relocation in Kirov
of the Commissariat of Forest Industry and a large factory under
the jurisdiction of the Commissariat of Aviation Industry. By
occupying the two main buildings of Kirov s Pedagogical Institute,
these commissariats forced the Institute to abandon the provincial
capital for a remote rural location, Iaransk. Then and for years
thereafter, the Pedagogical Institute portrayed itself as the
victim of these commissariats' bad behavior that included the
physical destruction of the Institute s buildings and much of its
property. In its quest for justice, as it understood it, the
Institute had the support of the Commissariat of Education. But
that agency was far too weak in comparison with its institutional
competitors, the offending commissariats, to provide much help. Of
greater significance, the Institute forged a remarkable alliance
with governing party and state organs in the city and region of
Kirov. A united Kirov compelled the entry into the dispute of the
Council of Peoples Commissars of both the Russian Republic and
Soviet Union and the party s Central Committee. In addition to a
focus on the exercise of power at the center and periphery, this
study also assesses the Institute s wartime exile in Iaransk. The
difficulties of life there led to a Soviet version of town vs. gown
and provoked the Institute s further resentment of Moscow. They
also exacerbated conflict among distinct groups at the Institute as
each advanced its own interests and authority. Faculty and
administration, ranked and unranked faculty, communists and
non-communists, and evacuated instructors and the Institute s own
all fought amongst themselves over the relationship of politics and
scholarship and over the legitimacy of a highly stratified system
of food rationing."
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