Description:
Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917.
Brief description: Michael David-Fox is Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of History at Georgetown University and a founding and executive editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is the author of several books, most recently Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Soviet Russia.
Review Quotes:
Michael David-Fox uses the development of the party's higher educational system in the 1920s to argue for important continuities between the NEP period and the Great Break. This is an important book for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of Soviet political culture.
-- "Slavic Review"