This book is a comparative study of the endeavors to create a socialist system of higher education in the Soviet Union under Stalin and in China under Mao. It is organized around three themes: the convergence of Maoism with Stalinism in the early 1950s, which induced the transnational transplantation of the Soviet model of higher education to China; historical convergence between Stalinism of the First Five-Year Plan period (1928-1932) and Maoism of the Great Leap period (1958-1960), which was prominently manifested in Soviet and Chinese higher education policies in these respective periods; the eventual divergence of Maoism from Stalinism on the definition of socialist society, which was evinced in the different final outcomes of the Maoist and Stalinist endeavors to create a socialist system of higher learning.

Lee S. Zhu is Professor of History at Loras College, USA.

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Lee S. Zhu is Professor of History at Loras College, USA.

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I. The Convergence of Maoism with Stalinism in the Early 1950s: The Soviet Model and China's Initial Endeavor to Create a Socialist System of Higher Education

Chapter 2. The Soviet Model and China's Initial Endeavor to Create a Socialist System of Higher Education

Part II. The Historical Convergence between Stalinism and Maoism: Soviet Higher Education during the First Five-Year Plan Period (1928-1932) and Chinese Higher Learning in the Great Leap Period (1958-1960)

Chapter 3. The Class War against the Bourgeois Intelligentsia and the Intensified Effort to Create a Proletarian Intelligentsia

Chapter 4. New Utopianism and Radical Reforms in the Process of Education

Part III. High Education in the Soviet Union under High Stalinism and in China under Late Maoism

Chapter 5. Socialism and Goals of Higher Education in the Soviet Union under High Stalinism and in China under Late Maoism

Chapter 6. Transformations in Higher Education Institutions under High Stalinism and Late Maoism