Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921-34 that places special emphasis upon the theme of social mobility through education. One of the hitherto untold stories of Soviet history is the making of the 'Brezhnev generation', a cohort of young workers and Communists sent to higher education during the First Five-Year Plan (1928-1932) and subsequently catapulted into leadership positions in the wake of the Great Purge of 1937/38. A focal point of this 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. The book is the first comprehensive history of Soviet education in the 1920s and early 1930s, and provides a sequel to the author's highly praised Commissariat of Enlightenment. In this, as in the earlier study, the author has used Soviet archival sources not previously available to Western scholars. |
Contents
XIII | 54 |
XIV | 58 |
XV | 61 |
XVI | 68 |
XVII | 73 |
XVIII | 75 |
XIX | 79 |
XX | 82 |
XXXV | 163 |
XXXVI | 168 |
XXXVII | 176 |
XXXVIII | 184 |
XXXIX | 186 |
XL | 189 |
XLI | 193 |
XLII | 198 |
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Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934 Sheila Fitzpatrick No preview available - 1979 |
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Page 7 - the entire spirit of the school is renewed. It has a chance to affiliate itself with life, to become the child's habitat, where he learns through directed living, instead of being only a place to learn lessons having an abstract and remote reference to some possible living to be done in the future. It gets a chance to be a miniature community, an embryonic society.
Page 7 - .modes of routine employment, the gaining of better technical skill as cooks, seamstresses, or carpenters, but active centers of scientific insight into natural materials and processes, points of departure whence children shall be led into