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" . . . an exciting, first-rate contribution to our understanding of Soviet history on several levels . . . and the relationship between tsarist and Soviet educational policies and practices." -Ben Eklof
"Larry E. Holmes' book is a fine, expert study of a difficult topic." -The Historian
" . . . this first-rate work definitely points the way toward a new understanding of the Soviet Union in the 1920s." -Journal of Modern History
" . . . a succinct and original study of early Soviet education and an engaging disaggregation of the convoluted relations among ideology, politics, and social reality in a revolutionary society . . . This well-researched, innovative, and insightful study is required reading for any serious student of early Soviet history." -The Russian Review
". . . elegantly written, a pithy fast paced, and intersting book . . ." -East West Education
Larry Holmes examines Soviet school policy from 1917 to 1931 in its ideological, political, institutional, and social dimensions.
Table des matières
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
