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How Can I Maintain My Own Identity within a Crowd? Suggestions from Totalitarian Experiences
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Franzenburg, Geert – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2022
How can the individual preserve his identity within a crowd? How can he/she counter the threats and the temptations of the mass phenomenon? In the following, these questions are answered, correctly based on two contrasting and complementary situations and approaches: on the one hand, the beginnings of the Soviet Union in the 1920s as manifested in…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Authoritarianism, Biographies, Social Systems
Actors and Ideology for Educational Policy Transfer: The Case of Education Reforms in the Two Koreas during the Soviet and US Military Occupation
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Kim, Sun – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
This paper critically considers the notion of educational policy transfer by addressing the roles of significant actors, based on an analysis of educational reforms made during the Soviet and US military occupation in the two Koreas. Using evidence from the Korean cases, the paper challenges the state-centric, linear, and static views of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Technology Transfer, Educational Change, Foreign Policy
October 1957 Memorandum Related to Sputnik
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McNatt, Missy; Traill, David – Social Education, 2007
On October 5, 1957, the headline on the front page of the "Baltimore News-Post" proclaimed "Russ "Moon" Circling Earth." The "Russ" Moon was Sputnik I, launched by the Soviet Union a day earlier. The launch had far-reaching and unexpected outcomes for the United States. Almost immediately, President Dwight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Sources, Presidents, United States History
Ideological and Political Education and the Combat Training of Troops in the Years of the Great Patriotic War
Barabanshchikov, A. V. – Soviet Education, 1976
The author summarizes the political education given to troops during World War II. (DE)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational History, European History, Military Personnel
The Officer's Handbook.
Kozlov, S. N. – 1971
The handbook is intended to aid military personnel in the expansion of their military-theoretical horizon and in the accomplishment of practical tasks on the instructn and training of subordinates. It is especially designed for young offices. The first sections of the book are devoted to military-theoretical problems. The foundations and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guides, Males, Military Personnel
Military Pedagogy. A Soviet View. Soviet Military Thought Series.
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Danchenko, A. M., Ed.; Vydrin, I. F., Ed. – 1973
A constant theme running throughout this book is that the principles of Soviet military instruction are fundamentally different from the principles of training in western military establishments. The overriding concern of this theme is that purposefulness and the Communist Party approach are the essence of the entire Soviet educational process.…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Educational Methods, Educational Problems, Foreign Policy
Military R&D Communities.
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Albrecht, Ulrich – International Social Science Journal, 1983
Military research and development (R&D) in Western countries and the USSR are analyzed in terms of growth; self-perception of R&D personnel; relationships with industry and the state bureaucracy; reproduction schemes which result in war-oriented work; and worker training. Prospects are slim for the conversion of military production to…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Developed Nations, Government Role, Job Training