Professional Affiliation

Ph.D. Candidate, History,, Yale University

Wilson Center Project

The Higher Party Schools: Education, Politics, and Ideology during the New Economic Policy, 1921-1929

Project Summary

the system of communist party education that sprang up after the inauguration of NEP the intersection of some of the most important aspects of institutional life: political activity, chronicled through the particularly complete records of the party cell; student life, defined by the caried attempts to create a new morality and lifestyle; and educational conflict, centered around efforst to find curricula and educational methods appropriate to the new order policies and practices of the Institute of Red Professors: purges, dismissals, and promotions; the program of proletarianization The Communist Academy: top party theorists and academics; methodological center