Making the Soviet Intelligentsia : universities and intellectual life under Stalin and Khrushchev / Benjamin Tromly.
Study of the shaping of the postwar Soviet intelligentsia and its ambiguous relationship with the Soviet project.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | New studies in European history.
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| Summary: | Study of the shaping of the postwar Soviet intelligentsia and its ambiguous relationship with the Soviet project. "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 feted 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-288). |
| ISBN: | 9781107689824 1107689821 9781107598256 1107598257 9781139381239 1139381237 9781306376198 130637619X 9781107031104 1107031109 1139892304 9781139892308 1107701740 9781107701748 1107666996 9781107666993 1107703743 9781107703742 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781139381239 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |