Making the Soviet intelligentsia : universities and intellectual life under Stalin and Khrushchev / Benjamin Tromly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tromly, Benjamin, 1976- author.

Series:

New studies in European history.

New studies in European history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Soviet Union--History.

Universities and colleges.

Higher education and state--Soviet Union--History.

Higher education and state.

Intellectuals--Soviet Union--History.

Intellectuals.

Soviet Union--Intellectual life--1917-1970.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Making the Soviet Intelligentsia explores the formation of educated elites in Russian and Ukrainian universities during the early Cold War. In the postwar period, universities emerged as training grounds for the military-industrial complex, showcases of Soviet cultural and economic accomplishments and valued tools in international cultural diplomacy. However, these fêted Soviet institutions also generated conflicts about the place of intellectuals and higher learning under socialism. Disruptive party initiatives in higher education - from the xenophobia and anti-Semitic campaigns of late Stalinism to the rewriting of history and the opening of the USSR to the outside world under Khrushchev - encouraged students and professors to interpret their commitments as intellectuals in the Soviet system in varied and sometimes contradictory ways. In the process, the social construct of intelligentsia took on divisive social, political and national meanings for educated society in the postwar Soviet state.

Contents:

Introduction

Universities and postwar Soviet society. Youth and timelessness in the palaces of science

The university in the Soviet social imagination

The emergence of Stalin's intelligentsia, 1948-1956. Making intellectuals cosmopolitan : Stalinist patriotism, anti-Semitism, and the intelligentsia

Stalinist science and the fracturing of academic authority

De-Stalinization and intellectual salvationism

Revolutionary dreaming and intelligentsia divisions, 1957-1964. Back to the future : populist social engineering under Khrushchev

Uncertain terrain : the intelligentsia and the thaw

Higher learning and the nationalization of the thaw

Conclusion : intellectuals and Soviet socialism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89230-4

1-107-70281-X

1-107-70174-0

1-107-66699-6

1-107-68982-1

1-107-70374-3

1-107-59825-7

1-139-38123-7

OCLC:

867317506