Synopses & Reviews
The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a bottom-up focus and demonstrates, to an extent not appreciated hitherto, the gulf between the intentions of the government and the reality on the ground.
Synopsis
This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the "Kommunalka," the communal apartments that were a common feature of Russian cities during the Soviet era. Beginning in 1920, multiple Russian familiespurposefully selected from different social classeswere relocated and crammed together into single apartments. The intent was not simply to level out class differences, but also to create spy networks within homes and extend the government's surveillance and control over citizens. Possibly the most important social experiment undertaken by the Soviet regime, the Kommunalka arguably had as much as if not more of an effect on the experiences of inhabitants than external political realities. Soviet Communal Living offers a fascinating glimpse into the circumstances that defined daily life for millions of citizens during the seven decades of communist ruleand, in some cases, long after.
About the Author
LAURENCE BROCKLISS Fellow of Magdalen College, UK, and Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood. His area of research is the history of education, science and medicine in Britain and France. His latest book, co-edited with Heather Montgomery, is Childhood and Violence in Western Tradition (2010).
NICOLA SHELDON has degrees in history from Manchester and Oxford Universities and worked as a teacher of history and politics, and latterly as a head teacher, in sixth form colleges from 1987-2003. Since 2009, she has been working on the History in Education Project (www.history.ac.uk/historyineducation). From late 2011, she will be working for the Institute of Education, London.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Note on Timelines and Glossaries
General Introduction
PART I: THE BRITISH ISLES
Introduction
Citizenship, Moral Education and the English Elementary School; S.WrightElite Education and the Development of Mass Elementary Schooling in England, 1870-1930; H.EllisFaith and Nationhood: Church, State and the Provision of Schooling in Ireland, 1870-1930; D.Raftery and M.RelihanPART II: CONTINENTAL EUROPE
Introduction
From the Zwergschule (One-Room Schoolhouse) to the Comprehensive School: German Elementary Schools in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, 1870-1930; G.Budde'Schools are Society's Salvation': The State and Mass Education in France 1870-1930; J.F.ChanetRussia and the Soviet Union: Schooling, Citizenship and the Reach of the State, 1870-1945; B.EklofPART III: THE WIDER WORLD
Introduction
'To Become Good Members of Civil Society and Patriotic Americans': Mass Education in the United States, 1870-1930; E.BergPrimary Education and the Construction of Citizenship in Brazil, 1870-1930: Progress and Tensions; M.C.Soares de Gouvea and A.F. SchuellerThe Role of Mass Education in Nation Building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870-1930; N.CicekPART VI: THE COLONIAL EMPIRES
Introduction
'Education for Every Son and Daughter of South Africa': Race, Class and the Compulsory Education Debate in the Cape Colony; S. E. DuffIndia's Trials with Citizenship, Modernisation and Nationhood; N.KumarIndex