Read Culture and Power in Revolutionary Russia

1. Auflage 1990
ISBN: 978-1-349-11003-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten, eBook

This book shows that the rise of the intelligentsia occurred earlier than is normally thought, and that by 1922, rather than 1932, the underlying principles of the new Soviet government's policies towards culture had already emerged and "proto-Stalinism" was increasingly important.

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Read, Christopher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 The making of the Russian Intelligentsia: politics and culture in late Tsarist Russia; the emergence of the intelligentsia; cultural dynamism in early 20th century Russia. Part 2 The intelligentsia in war and revolution: the first stage of transformation - August 1914 - March 1918; intellectual life during the Civil War; anti-Bolshevik activism; passive resistance, passive collaboration; active collaboration. Part 3 The Bolshevik and cultural life during the Civil War: Narkompros; Proletkul't; party education - the Sverdlov University. Part 4 Laying the foundations of cultural power: the mutilating of Proletkul't; the re-organization of Narkompros; the cultural apparatus takes shape - party entrepreneurs of culture and the emergence of institutions of cultural control. Part 5 Compromise or confrontation? the contours of cultural policy 1923-1925: Smena vekh' and NEP toleration; the evolution of party policy on culture in the mid 1920s; cultural policy in practice - the workers' faculties (Rabfaky).