Author's Keywords: intellectuals; education; politics of culture; cultural authority; the Tartu School; Yuri Lotman; the Soviet Union	Convention All Academic Convention is the premier solution for your association's abstract management solutions needs. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Waldstein, Maxim. "In Defense of Culture: Yuri Lotman and the Politics of Culture and Education in the Late Soviet Union" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 12, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p20452_index.html>

Waldstein, M. , 2005-08-12 "In Defense of Culture: Yuri Lotman and the Politics of Culture and Education in the Late Soviet Union" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p20452_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper explores the distinctive character, rhetoric and politics of the cultural authority of intellectuals (educators, in particular) in the late Soviet period. On the basis of my original historical and social ethnographic research conducted in the University of Tartu, Estonia, I trace discursive and practical strategies used by local educators in effort to participate in the Soviet educational project not as mere executives but as active agents and partners. I find that the discourse and politics of �the defense of culture� and �anti-politics� were dominant components of these strategies. Instead of dismissing these strategies as �conservative� and �nationalistic,� I compare them to the �counter-cultural� strategies used by the Western �1960s generation� intellectuals. I argue that both share anti-authoritarian and anti-commercial sentiments, while sharp differences between them reflect the differences in the social situation of the Western and Soviet intelligentsias, as well as in their distinctive visions of the place of culture and education in society.

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