Sheila Fitzpatrick. Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934.

Contents

PART I

1 – Education and Soviet society

2 – The new Soviet school

3 – The education system: problems of mobility and specialization

4 – Professors and Soviet power

5 – Recruitment to higher education

PART II

6 – The ‘great turning-point’ of 1928-1929

7 – Cultural Revolution and the schools

8 – Mass education and mobility in the countryside

9 – The making of a proletarian intelligentsia

PART III

10 – The restoration of order: new policies in education, 1931-1934

11 – The ‘New Class’: social mobility and education under Stalin