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When Lenin asked, "Who will beat whom?" (Kto kogo?), he had no plan to wage revolutionary class war in culture. Many young Communists thought differently, however. Seeking in the name of the proletariat to wrest "cultural hegemony" from the intelligentsia, they turned culture into a battlefield in the 1920s. But was this, as Communist militants thought, a genuine class struggle between "proletarian" Communists and the "bourgeois" intelligentsia? Or was it, as the intelligentsia believed, an onsl
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- Author
- Sheila Fitzpatrick; American Council of Learned Societies
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501724084
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Poetry, Political Science, History
- Rating
- 1 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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