On the ideological front : the Russian intelligentsia and the making of the Soviet public sphere / Stuart Finkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finkel, Stuart, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--Soviet Union--History.

Intellectuals.

Exile (Punishment).

History.

Soviet Union.

Exile (Punishment)--Soviet Union--History.

Physical Description:

viii, 338 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]

Summary:

This book centers on a powerful and gripping story, the 1922-1923 expulsion from Soviet Russia of some one hundred prominent intellectuals- professors, journalists, philosophers, writers, engineers, agronomists, and others. Stuart Finkel' s meticulously researched account of this purge is the first close scholarly examination of this event and the first to set it in the context of Bolshevik curbs, prohibitions, and punishment of intellectuals who resisted ideological conformity. The book demonstrates that the infamous expulsion was part and parcel of the Bolshevik effort to redefine the role of the intelligentsia and to establish a distinctly Soviet public sphere. Lenin and his colleagues' policy toward intellectuals was closely connected to their endeavors to create a harmonious, unitary, and unconditionally Bolshevik society.

Contents:

The Russian intelligentsia and the Bolsheviks at the end of the civil war

Bolsheviks and professors : the struggle over university autonomy

Exposing the caste spirit in professional and scientific organizations

Cultural, literary, philosophical, and spiritual societies

Publishing, censorship, and ideological struggles

The deportations, part I : precedents and planning

The deportations, part II : arrest, negotiation, and expulsion

Epilogue : the deportees in emigration

Conclusion : the intelligentsia in Soviet Russia.

Notes:

"Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-320) and index.

ISBN:

9780300122411

0300122411

OCLC:

123968144