An examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward young children. Working on the assumption that cultural representations are not entirely separable, this study probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. It offers some tentative answers to the questions, What did children make of the Revolution? and What is the Revolution make of them? Although other studies have looked at families and children in the Soviet Union, most have focused on abandoned...
An examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward young children. Working on the assumption that cultural r...
An examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward young children. Working on the assumption that cultural representations are not entirely separable, this study probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. It offers some tentative answers to the questions, What did children make of the Revolution? and What is the Revolution make of them? Although other studies have looked at families and children in the Soviet Union, most have focused on abandoned...
An examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward young children. Working on the assumption that cultural r...
Choi Chatterjee Lisa A. Kirschenbaum Deborah A. Field
Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to analyse the ways in which citizens learnt to live within its system and create distinctly Soviet identities from its structures and ideologies.
Chronologically organised but moving beyond the traditional Cold War framework, this book covers topics such as the accelerating social, economic and political shifts in the Russian empire before the...
Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet acce...
