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1. Cf. Harper, Samuel Northrop, Civic Training in Soviet Russia (Chicago, 1929).Google Scholar
2. If “educational specialist” is defined as a person engaged full-time in educational theory, practice, or administration, and prepared for this specialty by an indeterminate period of professional training, then neither A. V. Lunacharsky, A. S. Bubnov, M. N. Pokrovsky, nor N. K. Krupskaia fits neatly into this category.
3. See, for example, Coleman, James S., ed., Education and Political Development (Princeton, 1965).Google Scholar
4. Korolev is the former head of the Institute of the Theory and History of Pedagogy of the RSFSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences and since 1955 a member of the Academy's Presidium. He is also the editor of the Academy's chief theoretical journal Sovetskaia pedagogika.
5. See Jeremy R. Azrael's analysis of Soviet political development in terms of the philosophical contradiction in Lenin's State and Revolution and his What Is To Be Done? in Kassof, Allen, ed., Prospects for Soviet Society (New York, 1967), p. 59–75.Google Scholar
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7. See Direktivy VKP(b) i postanovleniia sovetskogo pravitel'stva o narodnom obrasovanii: Sbornik dokumentov sa 1917-1947 gg., vol. 1, ed. N. I. Boldyrev (Moscow and Leningrad, 1947), pp. 14-16. A particularly good analysis of the gradual development of educational centralization is found in I. Zakolodkin's “Razvitie struktury Narkomprosa i ego mestnykh organov,” Narodnoe prosveshchenie, 1927, no. 11-12, pp. 45-72.
8. Korolev, Ocherki … , 1917-1920, p. 15.
9. As quoted by Shulgin, V. N., N. K. Krupskaia kak pedagog: K shestidesiatilctiin so dnia roshdeniia (Moscow, 1929), p. 15.Google Scholar
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12. As quoted in Perel, I, “K voprosu o reorganizatsii mestnogd upravlencheskogo apparata po narodnomu obrazovaniiu,” Narodnoe prosveshchenie, 1924, no. 4-5, p. 158.Google Scholar The italics are mine.
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17. See the following works by Shulgin, V. N.: Marks % Engels v ikh pedagogicheskikh vyskasyvaniiakh, 5th supplementary ed. (Moscow, 1925)Google Scholar; Osnovnye voprosy sotsial'- nbgo vospitaiiiia 5th ed. (Moscow; 1926); Obshchestvennaia rabota shkoly i programmy GUS'a (Moscow, 1926); 0 novom uchebnike, 2nd ed. (Moscow, 1927); 0 vospitanii kommunisticheskoi morali (Moscow, 1928); N. K. Krupskaia (see note 9); Pedagogika Perekhodndi epokhi (Moscow, 1930); and Piatiletka i gadachi narodnogo prosveshchcniia (Moscow 1930). See also Krupenina, M. V., ed., Ot shkoly uchebnoi k shkole obshchestvenno-polesnogo truda (Moscow, 1927)Google Scholar, and Krupenina, M. V., Rybnikov, M. N., Sheinberg, A., and Shulgin, V., eds., Nasha rabota, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1929).Google Scholar
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