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The People's Universities of the USSR (Hardcover)
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The People's Universities of the USSR (Hardcover)
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Although it has been a major priority of the Soviet government
since 1917, when the Bolsheviks initiated a mass literacy campaign,
adult education in the USSR has received comparatively little
attention from Western scholars. This book is the first Western
account of the people's universities--the decentralized, nonformal
arms of the vast Soviet system of continuing education. Based on
the only on-site studies thus far conducted by a Westerner, it
focuses on the ideological, institutional, and pedagogical
dimensions of the system and assesses its goals, methods, and
achievements in terms of both educational values and the larger
objectives of Soviet society. Lee first provides an overview of
theories of Soviet continuing education and looks at people's
universities in the context of Soviet adult education as a whole.
He traces the origins and development of people's universities
between 1896 and 1968 and examines the goals and curriculum of the
system. The next chapter deals with structural and administrative
organization together with teacher training, teaching methods, and
student evaluation procedures. Following a case study of the
People's University of Culture at Leningrad, the author explores
the linkages between people's universities and other
institutions--both educational and political--and analyzes the
impact of these connections and their significance for the future
of the universities. He presents detailed statistics on the
development of people's universities and a bibliography that
includes Soviet archival materials not previously available to
Western scholars. Lee's book explores a new area of scholarship of
interest to Soviet specialists while giving an unusually clear
picture of how particular political and economic aims continue to
shape Soviet institutions.
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