Read Christopher. Culture and power in the Revolutionary Russia: The Intelligentsia and the Transition from Tsarism to Communism

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. — 278 p. — ISBN 0-312-03681-7The Making of the Russian IntelligentsiaPolitics and Culture in Late Tsarist Russia
The Emergence of the Intelligentsia
Cultural Dynamism in Early Twentieth-Century RussiaThe Intelligentsia in War and RevolutionThe First Stage of Transformation: August 1914-March 1918
Intellectual Life during the Civil War
Anti-Bolshevik Activism
Passive Resistance, Passive Collaboration
Active CollaborationThe Bolsheviks and Cultural Life during the Civil WarNarkompros
Proletkul’t
Party Education: The Sverdlov UniversityLaying the Foundations of Cultural PowerThe Mutilation of Proletkul’t
The Reorganisation of Narkompros
The Cultural Apparatus Takes Shape
Party entrepreneurs of culture
The emergence of institutions of cultural controlCompromise or Confrontation? The Contours of Cultural Policy, 1923-5Smena vekh and NEP Toleration
The Evolution of Party Policy on Culture in the mid-1920s
Cultural Policy in Practice: The Workers’ Faculties (Rabfaky)Notes

Index