Communists on Education and Culture, 1848-1948

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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 Law and Opinion in 20th Century Britain and Ireland (ed. with S.W. Livingstone) Palgrave, 2003.

Summary

Communists on Education and Culture, 1848-1948 is aimed at both a specialist and non-specialist readership.

Product details

• Authors: W Morgan, W. Morgan, W. John Morgan
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2003
• EAN: 9781349641055
• ISBN: 978-1-349-64105-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Sociology of Education, Education, world history, Political Theory, General & world history, Political science & theory, philosophy of education, History of Education, Philosophy & theory of education, Social research & statistics, Educational sociology, Education—History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Education and sociology, Philosophy and social sciences, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection