Training the nihilists : education and radicalism in Tsarist Russia
- Title
- Training the nihilists : education and radicalism in Tsarist Russia / Daniel R. Brower.
- Published by
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [1975]
- © 1975
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 248 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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
- Contents
- 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
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [231]-242.