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Publication Date: 2020
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A Host of Contradictions: State Compulsion and the Educational Experience of Soviet Russia's Youth, 1931-1945
Holmes, Larry E.
European Education, v52 n3 p242-256 2020
Based on oral and written testimony of pupils and teachers, this essay examines the lived educational experience of the school-age cohort of children in Stalin's Russia from 1931 to 1945. The state alone determined the structure and curricula of the nation's schools. However, Soviet youngsters, their parents, and teachers responded to the center's initiatives in ways that both embraced and defied the attempt to make anew society and humans. They thereby at once hindered, shaped, and advanced the state's schemes to use the school as an instrument for the creation of a Soviet variant of modernity.
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Educational History, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Authoritarianism, Social Change, Government School Relationship, Curriculum Development, Government Role, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Drills (Practice), Memorization, Vocational Education, Academic Education, Political Attitudes, History Instruction, Russian Literature, Social Systems
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: USSR
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