Table of Contents

List of tables; Acknowledgements; Part I: 1. Education and Soviet society; 2. The new Soviet school; 3. The education system: problems of mobility and specialization; 4. Professors and Soviet power; Part II: 5. The 'great turning-point' of 1928–1929; 6. Cultural Revolution and the schools; 7. Mass education and mobility in the countryside; 8. The making of a proletarian intelligentsia; Part III: 9. The restoration of order: new policies in education, 1931–1934; 10. The 'New Class': social mobility and education under Stalin; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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A history of Soviet education policy 1921–34, this is a sequel to the author's highly praised Commissariat of Enlightenment.