Revolution of the Mind : Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 / Michael David-Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

David-Fox, Michael, author.

en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.

Contributor:

en Book Program, funder.

Series:

Studies of the Harriman Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and education.

Education, Higher--Soviet Union--History.

Education, Higher.

Communism and education--Soviet Union--History.

Communism and culture--Soviet Union--History.

Communism and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 1997

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Michael David-Fox is Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of History at Georgetown University and a founding and executive editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is the author of several books, most recently Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Soviet Russia.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501705397

1501705393

OCLC:

950934021