What is it about?
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"
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Why is it important?
This book offers a child's-eye-view of the Russian Revolution, considering what they made of it and what it tried to make of them.
Perspectives
I was drawn to a study of young children in revolutionary Russia by a desire to understand how revolution became an everyday reality. How did revolutionaries in power propose to answer the question of who cares for children? How did their answers affect the children who grew up in the wake of 1917?
Professor Emerita Lisa A Kirschenbaum
West Chester University
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This page is a summary of: Small Comrades, September 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781315054704.
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