| Description |
xii, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the Wilson Center ; no. 5 |
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Special study of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the Wilson Center ; no. 5.
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| Note |
"Originally presented at a two-day conference at the Kennan Institute ... on May 19 and 20, 1981"--P. [vii]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Iconoclastic currents in the Russian revolution: destroying and preserving the past / Richard Stites -- Lenin's Bolshevism as a culture in the making / Robert C. Tucker -- The provisional government and its cultural work / Daniel T. Orlovsky -- The civil war as a formative experience / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- The myth of Lenin during the civil war years / Nina Tumarkin -- Cultural revolution and the fortress mentality / David Joravsky -- The Utopian and the heroic: divergent paths to the communist educational ideal / James C. McClelland -- Lenin and the freedom of the press / Peter Kenez -- The breakdown in production and distribution of printed material 1917-1927 / Jeffrey Brooks -- The city versus the countryside in Soviet peasant literature of the twenties: a duel of Utopias / Katerina Clark -- The birth of the Soviet cinema / Richard Taylor -- Constructivism and early Soviet fashion design / John E. Bowlt -- The birth of the new Soviet woman / Barbara Evans Clements -- Village women experience the revolution / Beatrice farnsworth -- Contradictions of revolution: juvenile crime and rehabilitation / Peter H. Juviler -- Iconoclasm and cultural revolution in China and Russia / Maurice Meisner. |
| Subject |
Soviet Union -- Civilization -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Gleason, Abbott.
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Kenez, Peter.
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Stites, Richard, 1931-2010.
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| ISBN |
025331206X |
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9780253312068 |
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