Communist Propaganda at School

The World of the Reading Primers from the Soviet Bloc, 1949-1989

Joanna Wojdon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

154 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-74064-1 (ISBN)

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Communist Propaganda at School is based on an analysis of reading primers from the Soviet bloc and recreates the world as presented to the youngest schoolchildren who started their education between 1949 and 1989 across the nine Eastern European countries. The author argues that those first textbooks, from their first to last pages, were heavily laden with communist propaganda, and that they share similar concepts, techniques and even contents, even if some national specificities can be observed.

This volume reconstructs the image of the world presented to schoolchildren in the first books they were required to read in their school life, and argues that the image was charged with communist propaganda. The book is based on the analysis of over sixty reading primers from nine countries of the Soviet bloc: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia from the period.

Written with simplicity and straightforwardness, this book will be a valuable resource, not only to international academics dealing with the issues of propaganda, censorship, education, childhood and everyday life under communism in Eastern and Central Europe, but can also academics dealing with education under communism or with the content of primary education. It also brings educational experiences of the Soviet bloc to international researchers, in particular to researchers of education under totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.

Joanna Wojdon, born 1973, is an Associate Professor at the Institute of History, University of Wrocław, chair of the Department of Methodology of Teaching History and Civic Education. Her research interest includes also the history of the Polish Americans and public history. She has authored an award-winning White and Red Umbrella: Polish American Congress in the Cold War Era (1944-1988) (Helena History Press, 2015), and Textbooks as Propaganda. Poland under Communist Rule, 1944-1989 (Routledge, 2018).

Introduction: Why Primers? Why Politics?

1. The Wide World – The Homeland. Between Patriotism and Communism

2. Wide World – The Development of Technology and Civilizational Transformations

3. The World a Little Closer – Adults

4. The Closest World of Children – School

5. Children in Private Life

6. Holidays

7. Conclusion

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	235 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-74064-8 / 0367740648
ISBN-13	978-0-367-74064-1 / 9780367740641
Zustand	Neuware