Communists on Education and Culture, 1848-1948

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-349-64105-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Communists on Education and Culture, 1848-1948 is aimed at both a specialist and non-specialist readership. It provides a detailed, yet readable account of the attitudes of leading communists, including Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Gorky, Gramsci, Lukacs, Mao Zedong and John Maclean, towards education and culture during the first 100 years of the communist movement.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgan, W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements PART I: FROM CLASSICAL MARXISM TO STATE SOCIALISM Prologue: Independent Worker's Education Proletariat and Praxis Class and Party PART II: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISTS Proletarian Education: John Maclean Cultural Politics: Antonio Gramsci Political Commissar and Cultural Critic: Georg Lukàcs Prelude to Cultural Revolution: Mao Zedong PART III: SOVIET COMMUNISTS Political Education and the Vanguard Party: Vladimir Illich Lenin Not by Politics Alone: Leon Trotsky Social Teacher and Director of Culture: Maxim Gorky Stalinists and After: Epilogue Notes and References Index

Über Autor(innen)

W. JOHN MORGAN is Professor of Comparative Education and Director of the Centre for Comparative Education Research, University of Nottingham. His research interests are in the comparative history of politics of education and social policy. His most recent book is (ed. with S.W. Livingstone) Palgrave, 2003.