Bolshevik educational initiativesCommunist AcademyInstitute of Red ProfessorsNew Economic PolicySverdlov Communist University
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<p>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.</p>
Key Findings
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Bolshevik cultural politics created communist institutions that paralleled and rivaled conventional higher-education institutions, including universities and the Academy of Sciences.
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The Bolshevik cultural project was closely linked to party educational institutions, originating with the first party school founded on Capri in 1909.
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The study provides the first account of the early history and politics of Sverdlov Communist University, the Institute of Red Professors, and the Communist Academy.
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These institutions pursued distinct goals: transforming everyday life, training communist intellectuals and red specialists, and developing planned collectivist proletarian science.
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Using previously inaccessible archival materials, the study analyzes Bolshevik educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917.
Research Object
Bolshevik Party educational and research institutions in higher learning after the 1917 Revolution, including Sverdlov Communist University, the Institute of Red Professors, and the Communist Academy
Research Subject
The emergence, development, political roles, and cultural-educational aims of communist institutions established to parallel and rival conventional higher-learning institutions and create a new proletarian intellectual and scientific order
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