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OverviewCommunist 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joanna WojdonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.235kg ISBN: 9780367740641ISBN 10: 0367740648 Pages: 154 Publication Date: 09 January 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJoanna 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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