{"product_id":"on-the-ideological-front-stuart-finkel-9780300122411","title":"On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving emerged, exhausted but triumphant, from the bloody and divisive Russian Civil War, V. I. Lenin and his colleagues turned to eliminating perceived ideological foes from within. In \u003ci\u003eOn the Ideological Front\u003c\/i\u003e, Stuart Finkel tells the story of the1922 expulsion from Soviet Russia of almost one hundred prominent intellectuals, including professors and journalists, philosophers and engineers, writers and agronomists. Finkel's meticulously researched and persuasively argued study sets this compelling human drama within the context of the Bolsheviks' determined efforts to impose ideological conformity, redefine the role of the intelligentsia, and establish a distinctly Soviet public sphere. The book demonstrates that the NEP period was not a time of intellectual pluralism and ideological retreat on the part of the Bolsheviks. On the contrary, from its formative years, the Soviet regime zealously policed the ideological front and laid the institutional and discursive foundations for the Stalinist state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stuart Finkel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300122411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300122411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.61w x 1.09d","brand":"Stuart Finkel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425003159807,"sku":"9780300122411","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9857a572-e04f-4c3c-b0ed-c8203c8dadb1.jpg?v=1761536330","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-the-ideological-front-stuart-finkel-9780300122411","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}