Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934

Klappentext A history of Soviet education policy 1921 34! this is a sequel to the author's highly praised Commissariat of Enlightenment. Zusammenfassung This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921–34 that places special emphasis upon the theme of social mobility through education. A focal point of the book is the educational policies which not only produced the 'Brezhnev generation' but also linked Stalin's regime with the massive upward mobility of the industrializing 1930s. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; Acknowledgements; Part I: 1. Education and Soviet society; 2. The new Soviet school; 3. The education system: problems of mobility and specialization; 4. Professors and Soviet power; Part II: 5. The 'great turning-point' of 1928-1929; 6. Cultural Revolution and the schools; 7. Mass education and mobility in the countryside; 8. The making of a proletarian intelligentsia; Part III: 9. The restoration of order: new policies in education, 1931-1934; 10. The 'New Class': social mobility and education under Stalin; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Sheila Fitzpatrick, Sheila (Columbia University Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick Sheila
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2002
• EAN: 9780521894234
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89423-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies; Cambridge Russian, Soviet and; Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries