Builders and Deserters : Students, State, and Community in Leningrad, 1917-1941.

Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Studenchestvo and Tsarism -- 2 Revolution and Civil War -- 3 Shaping the Community -- 4 Politics, Ideology, and the Studenchestvo -- 5 In the Classroom -- 6 Training for a New World -- 7 Studenty-Studentki -- 8 Disorder in the Community -- 9 Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Student Life: Selected Archival Documentation -- Appendix 2 Major Institutions of Higher Learning in Leningrad, 1917-1941 -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- F -- G -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- Z -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

One of the most significant changes produced by the Bolshevik Revolution was the formation of an elite that identified with the new socialist order. Students in the rapidly expanding higher education system were part of this new elite. In Builders and Deserters Peter Konecny makes use of an unprecedented range of previously unavailable sources to examine the academic, cultural, and political dimensions of student life in the Soviet Union's second largest city, Leningrad.

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