Revolution of the Mind Contributor(s): David-Fox, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 080143128X ISBN-13: 9780801431289 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $56.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1997 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
Dewey: 378.47 |
LCCN: 96-47757 |
Lexile Measure: 1500 |
Series: Studies of the Harriman Institute |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.28" W x 9.23" (1.20 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): David-Fox, Michael: - 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. |