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)--Soviet Union--History.

Exile (Punishment).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 338 p.))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Having emerged, exhausted but triumphant, from the bloody and divisive Russian Civil War, V. I. Lenin and his colleagues turned to eliminating perceived ideological foes from within. In On the Ideological Front, Stuart Finkel tells the story of the1922 expulsion from Soviet Russia of almost one hundred prominent intellectuals, including professors and journalists, philosophers and engineers, writers and agronomists. Finkel's meticulously researched and persuasively argued study sets this compelling human drama within the context of the Bolsheviks' determined efforts to impose ideological conformity, redefine the role of the intelligentsia, and establish a distinctly Soviet public sphere. The book demonstrates that the NEP period was not a time of intellectual pluralism and ideological retreat on the part of the Bolsheviks. On the contrary, from its formative years, the Soviet regime zealously policed the ideological front and laid the institutional and discursive foundations for the Stalinist state.

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 (p. 239-320) and index.

ISBN:

9786612088810

9781282088818

1282088815

9780300145076

0300145071

OCLC:

1013937790