Confronting the Countryside: The Training of Political Educators in 1920s Russia

Autor/in	Sumpf, Alexandre
Titel	Confronting the Countryside: The Training of Political Educators in 1920s Russia
Quelle	In: History of Education, 35 (2006) 4-5, S.475-498 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational History; Politics; Political Attitudes; Rural Areas; Propaganda; Teacher Role; Adult Educators; Russia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Politik; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Lehrerrolle; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Adult training; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Erwachsenenbildung; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Russland
Abstract	This article examines the role of the "izba-chital'nia" (rural reading room) in the 1920s Bolshevik efforts to construct a system of political education for the Soviet countryside. It focuses on the development of a system of political training of the people who ran these reading rooms--the so called "izbachi" or "educators of the peasant masses." The article unravels the cross-purpose strategies of the authority in charge of political education--the "politprosvet," and its employees in the countryside. While the politprosvet organized its courses in order to select and guide the izbachi, ensuring contact within the network by means of a vast correspondence, the izbachi themselves used these courses, and especially the acquisition of "Bolshevik-speak" in them, either to escape the village or to gain greater authority within it. This new authority that they acquired was based on their ability to undo the script of the new Soviet laws while passing on "politically correct" information about the local situation to the higher authorities. (Contains 1 table and 76 footnotes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10