Collective Farmers, Master Science: Youth, Education, and Inequality in the Russian Countryside, 1960s-1970s

Soviet authorities had long aimed to create a classless society and eliminate the differences between the city and the countryside. Collective Farmers, Master Science! describes the Russian peasantry’s transformation and ultimate extinction through the young people who became immersed in a new Soviet education system. In the process, they adopted the attitudes of Soviet modernity and abandoned the long-standing social patterns of their class.
Memory studies and Soviet sociocultural scholar ...