Stalin's school : Moscow's model School No. 25, 1931-1937 / Larry E. Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Larry E. (Larry Eugene), 1942- author.

Series:

Series in Russian and East European studies.

Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Elementary--Soviet Union--History.

Education, Elementary.

Communism and education--Soviet Union--History.

Communism and education.

Communism and culture--Soviet Union--History.

Communism and culture.

25-ai︠a︡ Obraztsovai︠a︡ shkola Okti︠a︡brʹskogo raĭona g. Moskvy--History.

25-ai︠a︡ Obraztsovai︠a︡ shkola Okti︠a︡brʹskogo raĭona g. Moskvy.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The school's administrators, teachers, pupils, friends, and foes become companions as well as objects of this study as we walk the school's halls, enter its classrooms, eavesdrop on feuding officials who debate its fate, and learn something of what the school and the period meant for its youth. Photographs of the school's teachers and students and reproductions of the students' notebooks, drawings, and watercolors add personality to this story."--Jacket.

"From 1931 to 1937, School No. 25 was the most famous and most lavishly appointed school in the Soviet Union, instructing the children of such prominent parents as Joseph Stalin, head of the Communist Party, Viacheslav Molotov, head of the Soviet State, and Paul Robeson, American actor and singer. Relying on published records, materials in eleven archives, accounts left by visiting foreigners - including American educator George Counts - and thirty-six interviews with surviving pupils, Holmes brings Model School No. 25 to life.

Contents:

1. Fame

2. Fortune

3. Order

4. In the Vanguard of Reform

5. The Curriculum: Legitimizing the Soviet Regime

6. Power Politics

7. "The Corruption of Children"

App. 1. Teachers' Salaries in Common and Model Schools, 1932-1934

App. 2. Vasilii Stalin as Schoolboy

App. 3. George Counts, School No. 25, and America.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index.

ISBN:

9780822977292

082297729X

OCLC:

1132403281