Josef Stalin Research Paper
Jabari Brown
Alexis Mamaux History C code
26/1/13
Education under a Stalinist Regime
Education is a force to be reckoned with in terms of making or breaking a country, especially a powerful country, like Russia. After Vladimir Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, died in1924, there were many challenges to succession by the party members, namely Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, and Josef Stalin. Josef Stalin was not seen as a threat, as a result, the other 3 politicians did not see what Stalin was capable of, which ended up in Stalin eliminating them and taking the seat of power for him. Josef Stalin had many plans for Russia. He had many stances and views on many things he saw that, …show more content…
Any effort to interpret those values as of inherent worth or of some significance independent of the needs of the Soviet state is branded as "bourgeois objectivism" or even, in certain cases, treason. The intent of the Soviet regime is not to educate, but to indoctrinate through a culturally totalitarian system of controls which produce, in the words of Stalin, a group of intellectuals who are "engineers of human minds," and for the rest, minds capable of being engineered. In this manner it is intended to create the "new Soviet man.” (Treadgold …show more content…
It was free and compulsory, and tended to be indoctrinated, as its goal was to to frame people into the Communist way of thinking. The secret police made certain that Communist ideology was taught. Education was vital to the success and growth of the new society planned for the USSR. Children were the future of the nation and were easier to influence about the ways of communism. Schools became much more strict and focused on courses necessary to develop skilled workers. Discipline was harsh for students in order to make them disciplined workers for the factories. The ultimate goal of the education system was to make a loyal Soviet citizen intensely proud of Russia's history, and capable of contributing to Stalin's new system. The enforcement of this educational policy was able to take a backward nation, where few people could read and write, and to push the literacy rate to 86 percent in rural
Alexis Mamaux History C code
26/1/13
Education under a Stalinist Regime
Education is a force to be reckoned with in terms of making or breaking a country, especially a powerful country, like Russia. After Vladimir Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, died in1924, there were many challenges to succession by the party members, namely Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, and Josef Stalin. Josef Stalin was not seen as a threat, as a result, the other 3 politicians did not see what Stalin was capable of, which ended up in Stalin eliminating them and taking the seat of power for him. Josef Stalin had many plans for Russia. He had many stances and views on many things he saw that, …show more content…
Any effort to interpret those values as of inherent worth or of some significance independent of the needs of the Soviet state is branded as "bourgeois objectivism" or even, in certain cases, treason. The intent of the Soviet regime is not to educate, but to indoctrinate through a culturally totalitarian system of controls which produce, in the words of Stalin, a group of intellectuals who are "engineers of human minds," and for the rest, minds capable of being engineered. In this manner it is intended to create the "new Soviet man.” (Treadgold …show more content…
It was free and compulsory, and tended to be indoctrinated, as its goal was to to frame people into the Communist way of thinking. The secret police made certain that Communist ideology was taught. Education was vital to the success and growth of the new society planned for the USSR. Children were the future of the nation and were easier to influence about the ways of communism. Schools became much more strict and focused on courses necessary to develop skilled workers. Discipline was harsh for students in order to make them disciplined workers for the factories. The ultimate goal of the education system was to make a loyal Soviet citizen intensely proud of Russia's history, and capable of contributing to Stalin's new system. The enforcement of this educational policy was able to take a backward nation, where few people could read and write, and to push the literacy rate to 86 percent in rural