A Discussion On Lenin's Policy Of The Old Intelligentsia

" The problem of the intelligentsia of the Soviet Union is a great problem with particularity in the socialist construction of the Soviet Union. The attitude of the intelligentsia determines the result of socialisms of the Soviet Union in fact. " The problem of the intelligentsia of the Soviet Union began in Lenin's, for Lenin was the founder of the Soviet Union, the leaders after him mostly carried on the policy of the intelligentsia of Lenin. So, the study of the policy of the intelligentsia in Lenin's has grate academic value not only for studying the whole Russian intelligentsia, but also for summarizing the experience and lessons of the intellectual in our country.This text is divided into two parts to study Lenin's policy of the old intelligentsia. The first part contents the formulation and the practice of the old intelligentsia in Lenin's. The second part contents the rediscussion of the policy of the old intelligentsia in Lenin's.After the October Revolution, the proletariat party faced the tasks of managing the country and resuming economy, consolidating the nation and developing science and culture. To overcome these problems, experts with certain knowledge were needed. In fact, the people of the Soviet Union at that time were at low educational level and most people were peasants. The working people didn't have the ability of overcoming these problems, and the training of the new intelligentsia needed a long period of time. So, how to utilize the experts left by the old society was the most important task of the proletariat party.Without any experience, according to the national conditions of Russia, Lenin made the policy of utilizing the old intelligentsia. These policies not only brought enormous achievements to the young Soviet country, but also other socialist countries.Based on Marx's classic theory and the theory of the class analysis, Lenin analyzed the social status and classic attribute of the intelligentsia. He thought that the old intelligentsia mostly came from the family of exploiting class, accepted the education of bourgeois ideas, and served the capitalist class with the view of bourgeois. However, they are workers, they are mental workers. Lenin further proposed, that the intelligentsia is not a class, but a stratum. As a stratum, the intelligentsia can serve not only the capitalist class, but also the proletariat. So, the transformation of them plays the key role of the policies of the old intelligentsia.The policy of the old intellectuals in Lenin's contents: unition, education and transformation. In order to unite the old intelligentsia better, Lenin regarded the socialist transformation as a very important contention in the policy of the old intelligentsia. Lenin divided the transformation of the old intellectuals into the following parts.While establishing the target of transformation, Lenin analysed conscientiously that the old intelligentsia held the different attitude of the revolution and the new born regime, he thought, that those, who held the attitude of neutrality to the revolution and the new born regime should become the object of the transformation. But Lenin insisted in the main principle all the time ----through transformation, let them understand the superiority of the socialist system. In order to carry on socialist transformation to the old intelligentsia better, make them change the position faster, Lenin still said, that the Party should offer high salary and conditions to the experts, create higher material living condition for them. However, Lenin decided to offer a national expert and experts from foreign countries a great amount of remunerations He said, that all the people should treat the intelligentsia with the attitude of comrade. He educated the mass of workers and peasants to change the attitude towards the intelligentsia and the whole party to cherish the intelligentsia. In order to unite, utilize the intelligentsia better, Lenin carried on the ideological struggle with various kinds of wrong views. Meanwhile, what he still...