 | The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia Subjects: Soviet Union -- Intellectuallife -- 1917–1970; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917–1936; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936–1953; When Lenin asked, "Who will beat whom?" (Kto kogo?), he had no plan to wage revolutionary class war in culture. Many young Communists thought differently, however. Seeking in the name of the proletariat to wrest "cultural hegemony" from the... Sheila Fitzpatrick is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia, Everyday Stalinism, and Stalin's Peasants and the editor or coeditor of several other books. |
