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“of the most cruel class struggle” in higher education over “the question who will be master.” Reflecting the confidence of the cells, the conference resolution boasted that current events proved the communist student body was the only base on which the state could rely in restructuring the higher school. The student cells demanded the right to help determine all party policies affecting “school construction.”60 With”
― Michael David-Fox, Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929

“This link was not coincidental: the movement to create university-level courses for women, still barred from the universities, was an integral part of the “social-pedagogical” movement that intensified in the late nineteenth century to create a “free” (vol’nyi) university outside state control, independent of state subsidies, open to both sexes, and free of restrictions by nationality and estate.”
― Michael David-Fox, Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929

“The maximalist dreamers of this epoch, the Left Bolshevik (Vpered) group led by the philosopher of proletarian culture, Aleksandr Bogdanov, were effectively defeated by the hardheaded “centrist” Leninists by 1912.”
― Michael David-Fox, Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929