| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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New studies in European history
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New studies in European history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-288). |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Universities and postwar Soviet society. Youth and timelessness in the palaces of science -- The university in the Soviet social imagination -- The emergence of Stalin's intelligentsia, 1948-1956. Making intellectuals cosmopolitan : Stalinist patriotism, anti-Semitism, and the intelligentsia -- Stalinist science and the fracturing of academic authority -- De-Stalinization and intellectual salvationism -- Revolutionary dreaming and intelligentsia divisions, 1957-1964. Back to the future : populist social engineering under Khrushchev -- Uncertain terrain : the intelligentsia and the thaw -- Higher learning and the nationalization of the thaw -- Conclusion : intellectuals and Soviet socialism. |
| Summary |
Study of the shaping of the postwar Soviet intelligentsia and its ambiguous relationship with the Soviet project. |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Universities and colleges. |
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Soviet Union. |
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History. |
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Higher education and state -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Higher education and state. |
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Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970.
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Intellectual life. |
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1917-1970 |
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Intellectuals -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Intellectuals. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tromly, Benjamin, 1976- Making the Soviet intelligentsia. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014 9781107031104 (DLC) 2013021429 (OCoLC)852957070 |
| ISBN |
9781107689824 (electronic book) |
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1107689821 (electronic book) |
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9781107598256 (electronic book) |
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1107598257 (electronic book) |
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9781139381239 (electronic book) |
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1139381237 (electronic book) |
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9781306376198 (electronic book) |
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130637619X (electronic book) |
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9781107031104 |
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1107031109 |
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