Wilson Center Experts
Michael David-Fox
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Dept. of History, Georgetown University
Wilson Center Project(s):
Toward a Re-evaluation of NEP in Cultural and Intellectual Affairs The Higher Part Schools: Education, Politcs and Ideology during the New Ecoomic Policy, 1921 - 1929
Previous Terms at the Wilson Center:
Research Grant, Kennan Institute. Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland. "Toward a Re-evaluation of NEP in Cultural and Intellectual Affairs." June 1, 1994 - Jan 31, 1995. Project Description: The project analyzes those far-reaching and frequently contradictory developments that were built in to the NEP turning-point, broadly conceived, and demonstrates how they then shaped the NEP order in cultural and intellectual affairs.
Research Grant, Kennan Institute. "The Higher Part Schools: Education, Politics and Ideology during the New Economic Policy, 1921 - 1929." November 1991. This project was an analysis of the developments that were built in to the NEP turning-point, broadly conceived, and to demonstrate how they then shaped the NEP order in cultural and intellectual affairs, which itself evolved in the course of the 1920s. Analysis of higher education during NEP. Keywords: communist party education; intelligentsia; Sverdlov; educational conflict; political activity; student life