ussr ; social developments ; education ; state control of curriculum

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content of curriculum could be used as which two things by Bs?
instruments social control / propaganda
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education could play vital role in transformation of wht?
society / values
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why then did gov quickly assert ctrl over curriculum?
suit its purpose
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- purpose of the curriculum
dgd
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education play key role in instilling what in new pop?
socialist values
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would help create what new ideal?
'new socialist man' / woman
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propaganda could be conveyed to children @ early age to support wht kind of indoctrination?
indoctrination socialist ideas into young minds
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education therefore would secure what?
support for party and regime
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which would be an important factor of what in the brezhnev / k years?
social stability
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soviet education would act as vehicle to attack what?
traditional practices / beliefs
10 of 168
including reducing hold of what over population?
religion / superstition
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also could attack patriarchal attitudes and do wat for women?
help their position and status
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education would be important method of what?
russification
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bringing sense of what to all different ethnic grps?
unity
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with policy industrialisation '30s education would allow population to aquire what that was needed in modern economy?
technical skills / expertise
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care taken to match growth 2ndary education in '30s to what?
needs of 5yps
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in '45-'85 what necessitated constant updating of skills?
need to match up to western technological developments
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under k increased emphasis ion development of what?
tech knowledge / skills
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FROM EARLY RADICALISM TO STALIN'S 'GREAT RETREAT'
DGDG
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as in like all other policy areas early yrs communist rule did marked what that impacted schools?
naive radicalism
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education heavily influenced by those that wished for schools to be like wht?
miniature copies of socialist society
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principle of single schools for all waht was est?
ages and abilities
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despite some in party who wished to set up what kind of schoolss?
separate technical schools
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to help match needs of?
developing economyu
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in schools teaching was to be delivered according to progressive methods that emphasised what?
play / discovery / group work
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children would study what rather than traditional subjects?
themes like farming or nature
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what were abolished?
tests
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and what was forbidden?
corporal punishment
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classrooms renamed what?
'labratories of learning'
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and children were to have influential voice in what?
running of heir schools
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changes met with some opposition by who
parents
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why?
saw academic education with formal quals key to brighter prospects for children
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whose authority declined dramatically?
teachers
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what happened to some?
dismissed by classes
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what did manu teachers do with gov orders?
ignore
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and continue on with what?
lecturing students
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why did chaotic situatin grow worse '31-'32?
cultural revolution
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and gov became concerned enough to do what?
impose order over school system
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as in other social policy areas what thing led to imposition more traditional methods?
stalin's 'great retreat'
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in which year
'36
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- stalin's ,easures
dfhfg
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new system based on what of makarenko's?
pedagogical poem
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of which years?
'33-'36
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which stressed traditional discipline to ensure what?
individuals knew duty to collective
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what were prescribed by gov?
textbooks
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and what two things were reintroduced?
traditional sybjects / formal exams
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authority w/in school returned to?
teachers
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and teaching methods base don what
lectures
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that required?
mechanical information learning (hmmm, sounds familiar does it not?)
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in symbolic move that emphasised tradition what was required for schoolgirls?
pigtails
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CONTENT OF CURRICULUM
DGDF
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from stalin's 'great retreat' '36 on, curriculum was based on what?
traditional subjects
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all students regardless of ability studied what?
same curriculum
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until when?
last years 2ndary education
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subjects delivered by teachers trained by who?
government
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using what?
approved textbooks
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what had to happen with information for exams?
memorised then regurgitated
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what weren't encouraged even@ kindergarten level?
creativity / free thinking
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- among subjects studied
fgd
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russian lit which involved study of what kind of books?
19th century classics
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schools usually offered 1 mfl, which being most popular?
english
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particular attention placed on which two subjects?
maths and science
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all subjects influenced by what?
political agenda
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but science in stalin era badly affected by who's ideas?
lysenko
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his ideas on what were favoured by stalin?
plant genetics
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and became accepted as?
scientific truth
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were they even right tho?
no (what a fckn shocker)
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what happened to teachers / scientists who pointed that out?
risked gulag
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wht subject became political minefield?
history
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and required what before standard history book could be agreed?
stalin's personal intervention
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result was publication of which book?
history of the all-union communist party
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in what year
'38
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book presented official view of wht?
developments under stalin
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and to be used for what purposes?
teaching
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what did this book become known as?
the short course
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what did this become meaning whole gen was educated into its views?
required reading
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history exams had to be cancelled in what year?
;56
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why?
in light of k's revelations about stalin
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his de-stalinisation policy led to what?
hurried rewriting of history
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wat was the new history text called?
History of the Communist Party
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published in which year?
'59
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which accused stalin of what?
economic failures
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and systematically did what for any favourable connection?
removed stalin's name
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credit given who to instead?
party and people instead
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in b years who was ignored in ussr history books?
stalin
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it was as if stalin and which two other things had never existed?
famine of '32 / gulag
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use of what also raised controversy?
russian language
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all students across soviet union required to learn russian + it was vital for what?
promotion
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for those who belonged to ethnic minorities what language would other lessons be taught in?
native language
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though why work literature works in native language rarely tought?
fear encouraging development nationalist sentiment
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schools teaching in russian generally viewed as offering wha?
better education
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so non0russian parents did what?
chose for their children
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russian speakers in non-russian republics resistant to do what?
learn other native languages
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and special arrangements under k did what?
dropped the requirement
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emphasis given to what kind of education increased with k's education reforms?
technical / vocational
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in what year?
'58
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all schools required to provide what?
vocational training
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or allow students to do what?
transfer to schools that did offer them
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undertaking what became a requirement of going to uni?
'productive economic wokr'
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one of k's aims wih these reforms was to do what for the educated?
bring them into closer touch with real life
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this was unpopular with students and parents that wished what?
to pursue more academic education
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and these reforms dropped when?
when b became leader
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thereafter work experience was expected to take place where?
within school workshop / garden
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most obvious indoctrination in curriculum was study of what?
Marxist-Leninist Theory
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course compulsory in which education levels?
all, even higher
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surveys of students from '80s reveal what?
this was most boring part of curriculum
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but there was an acceptance it had to be studied and exams passed why?
secure further progress in field
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even in kindergrted there were posters and little shrines of who?
'uncle lenin'
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after what year did 'uncle stalin' disappear?
'56
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children were encouraged to do what around small bust of lenin?
place ribbons round
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unlike most education systems no difference in what was offered to which two groups?
boys and girls
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only exception to this during which event?
wwii
112 of 168
whengov tried to move to system of?
separate girl / boy school
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boys were given?
basic military training
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and girls?
lessons in nursing
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was policiy ever fully applied?
nah
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and reverted back to co-ed school in hwat yr?
'54
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since '36 stalin's restoration of traditional school gave what back to teachers?
authority for school discipline
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yet students also given role as each class had what?
representative
119 of 168
usually elected by?
students (huh, guess the school system was more democratic than the actual ****** government)
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whose job was to inform teacher of what?
any misbehaviour by members of class
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system that reinforced duties of students to what?
socialism and state
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DEGREE OF CHANGE IN EDUCATION '53-'85
HDFGD
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system soviet education well est. by hwat decade?
'50s
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thereafter changes to system were?
minor
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main attempts to bring different emphasis to system were?
krhushchev;s reforms
126 of 168
in what years?
'58-'59
127 of 168
attempts to do which two things saw party opposition?
expand higher and adult education for children of workers / place greater emph on tech and vocational education
128 of 168
who saw them restricting what?
availability of academic education for children of party elite
129 of 168
as result what did b drop?
most controversial changes
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and what route remained preferred path to higher education?
high-status academic
131 of 168
like many b policies interest of party overtook interests of?
state
132 of 168
concerns remained that education needed to keep pace with skills needed to matchwhat?
tech advances in economy
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investment in what continued?
adult and higher education
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YOUTH GROUPS AND INFORMAL EDUCATION
GDG
135 of 168
party had structure of how many tiers to cover all ages?
3
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what were for children 5-9?
octobrists
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and organised what kind of gatherings?
informal
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where thet learnt what?
nursery rhymes
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and played?
simple games
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what was for children 10-14?
pioneers
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most children joined undergoing what at school?
initiation ceremony
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or where?
purpose-built pioneers' palace (bc nothing's too eccentric for the ussr)
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members had to promise to love what?
country
144 of 168
and follow teachings of?
lenin + communist party
145 of 168
only members allowed to wear uniform of?
red neckerchief and badge of poineers
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what did they encourage in school
good behaviour
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but also provided activities that did what?
extended range opportunities
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particularly true in provision of what kind of activities?
leisure
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and this went some way to explaining what?
appeal of org
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for those aged 14-28 what could they join?
komsomol
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altogether more serious group and seen as essential for progress to where?
party itself
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stalin made use of their enthusiasm / dedication to do what?
help carry through key changes
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their volunteers had been called upon to do what in 1st 5yps?
build new industrial centres
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they were also @ forefront of what?
cultural revolution
155 of 168
taking important role in rooting out?
class enemies
156 of 168
how maby members '29?
2.3m
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how many '40?
10.2m
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in'50s k called on komsomool to provide volunteers for what?
vls
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by '80s komsomol activists were expected to support what?
community schemes
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they were sometimes asked to report on whose 'deviant' behavioir?
youths
161 of 168
who did what?
vandalised / listened to foreign music
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komsomol called upon to physically break up gatherings of young ppl doing what?
listening to unapproved poetry / music
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by '82 wha was komsomol mmbshp?
40m
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sign that many saw komsomol what?
route to career success
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academic standards in which depts suffered bc of restrictions?
humanities and social sciences
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but wha emerged as largest scientific-technological intelligensia in '70s?
Academy of Sciences
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how many soviet scientists awarded nobel prize for science?
8
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