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Revolution of the Mind - Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 (Hardcover)
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Revolution of the Mind - Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies of the Harriman Institute
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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. Using a wide range of previously restricted and recently
declassified materials in former Communist Party and Soviet state
repositiories, David-Fox analyzes the internal evolution of the
revolutionary institutions and their relations with the Party. His
book represents a commitment, rare in the field of Soviet Studies,
to combine cultural, political, and institutional history, bringing
institution building after 1917 to the center of historical
attention.
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