ABSTRACT
Small Comrades is a fascinating examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward children. Working on the assumption that cultural representations and self-representations are not entirely separable, this book probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. 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 the Bolshevik vision of the "children of October"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |26 pages
The Kindergarten and the Revolutionary Tradition in Russia
chapter |25 pages
Pedagogy and Politics
part |55 pages
The Children of October and the Civil War
chapter |16 pages
“Save the Children”
chapter |13 pages
The Family as Fiction
chapter |25 pages
The Nature of Childhood
part |93 pages
Rethinking Revolution and Childhood, 1921–1932