Ideological search, political education and history writing: the first revolution lectures in 1934:|(international context, historical process, biographical and textual analysis)

Abstract

This study examines the Institute of Revolution founded in the body of the Istanbul University after the university reform in 1933 and the first Revolution Lectures given in 1934. This experience, which has not been yet studied in detail, is evaluated comparatively with similar experiences seen in other countries in the interwar period, as a historical process, and in the contexts of relations between party and ideology, biographies of the statesmen-professors and the contents/texts of the lectures.These lectures serve both as an example of a historical case and they include evaluations on their time on the past and perspectives on the future. They emerged in the special historical conditions of the single-party era. In addition, they are placed within the personal histories of their subjects. Consequently, the lectures present an opportunity for a different historical reading with its assessment of times, subjects and concepts.In the study, in addition to bringing up detailed information about the subject, it is inquired whether or not that the existing theses/texts on the years of the 1930s and in general the single-party era can be re-evaluated.