The Cultural Front: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

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?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801495164
• ISBN13: 9780801495168
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"