Collective farmers, master science! youth, education, and inequality in the Russian countryside, 1960s-1970s Tatiana Voronina ; translated by Meave Zimmerbaum

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voronina, Tatʹi︠a︡na (Tatʹi︠a︡na I︠U︡rʹevna), author.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Youth--Government policy--History--Russia (Federation)--20th history.

Youth.

Youth--Social conditions--Russia (Federation)--20th century.

Community life--History--Russia (Federation)--20th century.

Community life.

Socialism--History--Russia (Federation)--20th century.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Toronto Buffalo London University of Toronto Press [2025]

Language Note:

Text in English translated from Russian

Summary:

"Soviet authorities had long aimed to create a classless society and eliminate the differences between the city and the countryside. Collective Farmers, Master Science! describes the Russian peasantry’s transformation and ultimate extinction through the young people who became immersed in a new Soviet education system. In the process, they adopted the attitudes of Soviet modernity and abandoned the long-standing social patterns of their class.Memory studies and Soviet sociocultural scholar Tatiana Voronina argues that inequality was created by Soviet educational institutions. This book describes how Soviet modernity was conceptualized and implemented by focusing on the work of the rural Komsomol, rural schools, and an agricultural university. The book is written as a micro-history of three distinct rural communities in the Vologda region. It is based on rich archival material from central and regional archives of Russia and oral history interviews with former members of the region’s rural youth.Collective Farmers, Master Science! illuminates the intricacy and diversity of the Soviet modernization processes that took place in the Russian provinces during the 1960s and 1970s."-- Provided by De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Ruralism in the state discourse of developed socialism

Staying rural: ex-Peasants and identities

Rural schools

The colonization of rural knowledge begins

Education is enlightenment, ignorance is darkness

On the margins of Vologda villages: poor-performing and “mentally deficient” students

Agrarian institutes: “high modernity” in the rural outback

Cadres for the village

Molochnoe: urban meets rural

The rural Komsomol and the reproduction of inequality

Modernity’s conduit and hostages of backwardness

The invisible Komsomol: Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz VLKSM organizations

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed January 6, 2026)

Other Format:

Voronina, T. A. Collective farmers, master science

ISBN:

1487550391

9781487550394

9781487550417

1487550413

OCLC:

1561177268

Access Restriction:

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