Synopses & Reviews
"... 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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-208) and index.
Table 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