Purify Russia Once and for the Russian Communist Party’s (Bolsheviks) Campaign in Expelling Intellectuals in 1922

LIU SHan-shan

Russian Studies ›› 2009, Vol. 158 ›› Issue (4) : 49-61.

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Purify Russia Once and for the Russian Communist Party’s (Bolsheviks) Campaign in Expelling Intellectuals in 1922

  • LIU SHan-shan
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In 1922, the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) launched a campaign to expel old intellectuals after careful preparation. This campaign is a natural extension of the Bolshevik Party to suppress the opposition, and a part of the Bolshevik Party’s ideological construction. It has a tremendous negative impact on the establishment of normal relations between the Bolshevik Party and intellectuals. The campaign mainly aimed at expelling scholars in the field of humanities and social science, among whom more than 70 excellent representatives in Russian traditional thinking and culture were forced to leave their motherland, and actually the proletarianization of intellectuals did not appear as the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) had expected. Political mistrust and long-term control of ideology led to a unique “night people” phenomenon in the Soviet Union.

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Campaign in Expelling Intellectuals / Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
【Kлючевые слова】высылка интеллигенций
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