Research Catalog

Title

Small comrades : revolutionizing childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum.

Author

Kirschenbaum, Lisa A.

Publication

New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2000.

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Details

Description

232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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 did the Revolution make of them?" This project emphasizes young children as the subjects of policies and politics in their own right. The book draws on work that has been done on Soviet schooling, and focuses specifically on the development of curricula and institutions, but it also examines the wider context of the relationship between the family and the state, and to Bolshevik vision of the "children of October."

Series Statement

Studies in the history of education

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of education (RoutledgeFalmer (Firm))

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Early childhood education > Russia > History > 20th century
• Education > Aims and objectives > History > Russia > 20th century
• Communism and education > Russia > History
• Children > Russia > Social conditions > 20th century
• Children > Social conditions
• Communism and education
• Early childhood education
• Education > Aims and objectives
• Jeugdjaren
• Opvoeding
• Gezin
• Staat (politicologie)
• Sociale verandering
• Early childhood education > Russia > History > 20th century
• Education > Aims and objectives > History > Russia > 20th century
• Communism and education > Russia > History
• Children > Russia > Social conditions > 20th century
• Russia

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.216-224) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Real and imagined children -- pt. 1. The kindergarten and the revolutionary tradition in Russia. Pedagogy and politics -- pt. 2. The children of October and the Civil War. "Save the children" ; The family as fiction ; The nature of childhood -- pt. 3. Rethinking revolution and childhood, 1921-1932. The withering away of the kindergarten ; Rescripting childhood ; "Thank you, Comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood" -- Conclusion: Revolution and the rising generation -- Postscript: Three childhoods.

ISBN

• 0815339445
• 9780815339441
• 0815339453
• 9780815339458

LCCN

00055341

OCLC

• ocm44732220
• 44732220
• SCSB-1217756

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library