Michael David-Fox

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A historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union, Michael David-Fox is professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Average rating: 4.09 · 53 ratings · 4 reviews · 17 distinct works
Showcasing the Great Experi...

4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
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Revolution of the Mind: Hig...

3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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The Holocaust in the East: ...

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Crossing Borders: Modernity...

3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions
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Fascination and Enmity: Rus...

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Orientalism and Empire in R...

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Crucibles of Power: Smolens...

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The Resistance Debate in Ru...

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Academia in Upheaval: Origi...

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The Soviet Gulag: Evidence,...

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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



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