Revolution of the mind : higher learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 / Michael David-Fox.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Studies of the Harriman InstituteIthaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997©1997 Description: xvii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 080143128X (cloth)Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Soviet Union -- History | Communism and education -- Soviet Union -- History | Communism and culture -- Soviet Union -- HistoryLOC classification: LA831.8 .D37 1997Summary: 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. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Revolution-Mind-Bolsheviks-1918-1929-Institute/dp/080143128X
| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Books | MEF Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi | Genel Koleksiyon | LA 831.8 .D37 1997 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0004827 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index.
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.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Revolution-Mind-Bolsheviks-1918-1929-Institute/dp/080143128X