Author: Eklof, Ben ; editor:
Title: School and Society in Tsarist and Soviet Russia
Description: New York, St. Martin's Press, (1993). orig.boards. 22x14cm, xii,254,[8] pp. Minor rubbing. Small tear to dustwrapper. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Full title reads: "School and Society in Tsarist and Soviet Russia : Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990". Contains 10 papers. Includes: N.A. Korf (1834-83): Designer of the Russian Elementary School Classroom; Tolstoi & Peasant Learning in the Era of the Great Reforms; Theatre in the Village School: The Bunakovs' Discoveries; Worlds in Conflict: Patriarchal Authority, Discipline & the Russian School, 1861-1 914; Teachers, Politics & the Peasant Community in Russia, 1895-1918; Shatsky: Reformer & Realist (Introductory Remarks to F. A. Fradkin's " Shatsky's Last Years'); Soviet Experimentalism Routed: S.T.Shatsky's Last Years; Legitimizing the Soviet Regime: School No.25, 1931-1937; History Teaching in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union: Classicism and Its Alternatives ; School Textbooks: Weapons for the Cold War.

Keywords: Russian Educational History, Tsarist Russia, Soviet Union, Education, Historical, Sociology, Social, ,