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 (19281932) and Maoism of the Great Leap period (19581960), 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.

First original book-length comparative study of the endeavors to create a socialist higher education system Sheds new light on an important period in Soviet-Chinese relations Draws on archival materials and other primary sources in Russian and Chinese languages

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Soviet Model and China's Initial Endeavor to Create a Socialist System of Higher Education.- Chapter 2. The Class War against the Bourgeois Intelligentsia and the Intensified Effort to Create a Proletarian Intelligentsia.- Chapter 3. New Utopianism and Radical Reforms in the Process of Education.- Chapter 4. Socialism and Goals of Higher Education in the Soviet Union under High Stalinism and in China under Late Maoism.- Chapter 5. Transformations in Higher Education Institutions under High Stalinism and Late Maoism.