Builders and deserters : students, state, and community in Leningrad, 1917-1941 / / Peter Konecny

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956238903321
• Autore: Konecny Peter <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999
• ISBN: 9786612858208; 9781282858206; 1282858203; 9780773567979; 0773567976
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 378.47/21/09041
• Soggetti: Education, Higher - Political aspects - Russia (Federation) - Saint Petersburg; Higher education and state - Soviet Union - History; Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1994.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-353) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Studenchestvo and Tsarism -- Revolution and Civil War -- Shaping the Community -- Politics, Ideology, and the Studenchestvo -- In the Classroom -- Training for a New World -- Studenty-Studentki -- Disorder in the Community -- Conclusion -- Student Life: Selected Archival Documentation -- Major Institutions of Higher Learning in Leningrad, 1917-1941 -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Being a student meant much more than simply attending classes. The new Soviet student was expected to engage in activities ranging from work in local Communist Party organizations to participation in collectivization brigades in the countryside. Builders and Deserters explores how student attempts to accommodate personal ambition and established cultural traditions with the numerous obligations that came from their privileged status led to a difficult relationship with the state. Konecny discusses changes in the higher education system and ; everyday life from the pre-revolutionary period to the beginning of World War II. He also considers the world of politics and political activism, training in and out of the classroom, and the ways in which students both conformed to and deviated from explicit standards of social conduct and "Communist morality" under Stalinism. This is the first comprehensive analysis of the important role played by students in the Soviet socialist revolution during the inter-war period. The breadth of subject matter and thematic issues will interest scholars and students of Soviet history, as well as specialists in comparative education and youth culture.