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Training the nihilists : education and radicalism in Tsarist Russia

Title
  1. Training the nihilists : education and radicalism in Tsarist Russia / Daniel R. Brower.
Published by
  1. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [1975]
  2. © 1975
Author
  1. Brower, Daniel R.

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Description
  1. 248 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "Examines Russian education--the term is used loosely to include the entire system of socialization and learning in the advanced and secondary schools--in order to explain the factors producing the young rebels: Where did they come from? How did it happen that year after year the schools turned out a steady stream of recruits for the revolutionary movement?"--preface.
Subject
  1. Student movements > Russia
  2. Nihilism
  3. Nihilism
  4. Student movements
  5. Bildungswesen
  6. Studenten
  7. Radicalisme
  8. Onderwijs
  9. Student movements > Soviet Union
  10. Russia
  11. Russland
Contents
  1. 1. The Radical community. New people -- "Intelligentsia" and subculture -- 2. Fathers, sons, and daughters. New and old elites -- The Ladder of success -- The Raznochintsy -- 3. Education of the elite. Schools for the elite -- Schoold days in the Russian style -- 4. Recruiting the new people. Education and social promotion -- The Student corporation -- Student conflict and radical recruitment -- 5. New learning. Dissent in the schools -- Literature of dissent -- The Star in the West -- Intellectual schism -- 6. A New society. The School of dissent -- Apprenticeship in the new life.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. [231]-242.