«Old» Professorate and «Excellent Technicians»: The Scientific Intelligentsia of Kazan in the First Years of the Soviet Power Cover Image

«Старая» профессура и «отличные техники»: научная интеллигенция Казани в первые годы советской власти
«Old» Professorate and «Excellent Technicians»: The Scientific Intelligentsia of Kazan in the First Years of the Soviet Power

Author(s): Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Bushuyeva
Subject(s): Social history, Higher Education , History of Education, Social development, Sociology of Education
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: scientific intelligentsia; Kazan university; local history societies; vocational training; applied institutes;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the condition of intellectual community of Kazan in the first years of the Soviet power. Influence of educational and scientific policy of Bolsheviks on various groups of the scientific intelligentsia of the city is shown. Conditions of development of scientific activity of the Kazan humanists and representatives of natural specialties are considered. Emergence in the region of higher educational institutions of new type — practical institutes which personnel basis was made by the former junior teachers of the university is investigated. It is noted that with assistance of the authorities the new layer of republican scientific elite as opposed to university professorate has begun to be formed of the staff of applied higher education institutions.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 82-98
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Russian