Kremlin and the Schoolhouse - Reforming Education in Soviet Russia, 1917-1931

" -East West EducationLarry Holmes examines Soviet school policy from 1917 to 1931 in its ideological, political, institutional, and social dimensions.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Part One: The Idea and the Reality, 1917-1921

I. A New School for a New Society

II. In Search of a Policy

III. In Search of a School and a Public

IV. Narkompros under Siege

Part Two: Change and Permanence in the 1920s

V. NEP and the Progressive Curriculm

VI. SLow History

Classroom Practice

VII. Teachers

A Preference for the Customary

VIII. The ABC's beyond the School

Part Three: Compromise, 1925-1928

IX. Policy Running After Practice

X. Komsomol and the Technical Lobby

XI. A Threat of Failure

Part Four: Compromise Betrayed

XIII. Purges and Projects, 1929-1930

XIV. Slower History

XV. Policy Meets Practice, 1931

Conclusion

Statistical Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Product details

• Authors: Larry E. Holmes
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1991
• EAN: 9780253328472
• ISBN: 978-0-253-32847-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 519 g
• Series: Indiana-Michigan Russian and E; America Since World War II; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries