"The Teachers of Stalinism: Policy, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools of the 1930s examines Soviet primary and secondary teachers in a period of educational expansion, social transformation, and political repression. This book focuses on the professional status, classroom pr…
Starting in 1943, millions of children were separated into boys' and girls' schools in cities across the Soviet Union. The government sought to reinforce gender roles in a wartime context and to strengthen discipline and order by separating boys and girls into different classroo…
"Starting in 1943, millions of children were separated into boys' and girls' schools in cities across the Soviet Union. This policy sought to reinforce gender roles in a wartime context, so that boys were prepared to be soldiers and girls to be mothers, and it marked a deliberat…