Collective Farmers, Master Science

Youth, Education, and Inequality in the Russian Countryside, 1960s-1970s

Tatiana Voronina (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

366 Seiten

2025
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5038-7 (ISBN)

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A book about rural Russian youth during the late Soviet era, Collective Farmers, Master Science! explores the opportunities and constraints imposed upon young people by virtue of their rural education and agricultural background.

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 Tatiana Voronina argues that inequality was created by Soviet educational institutions. This book describes how Soviet modernity was conceptualized and implemented by focusing on the work of the rural Komsomol, rural schools, and an agricultural university. The book is written as a micro-history of three distinct rural communities in the Vologda region. It is based on rich archival material from central and regional archives of Russia and oral history interviews with former members of the region’s rural youth.
Collective Farmers, Master Science! illuminates the intricacy and diversity of the Soviet modernization processes that took place in the Russian provinces during the 1960s and 1970s.

Tatiana Voronina holds a PhD in history from the European University in Saint Petersburg and the University of Zurich. She is an independent scholar who specializes in the social and cultural history of the late Soviet period. Maeve Zimmerbaum is a graduate student and scholar of Russian literature specializing in Russian symbolism.

Translator’s Notes
Abbreviations
List of Photos
Introduction

Part I. Being Rural in the USSR
1. Ruralism in the State Discourse of Developed Socialism
2. Staying Rural: Ex-Peasants and Identities

Part II. Rural Schools
3. The Colonization of Rural Knowledge Begins
4. Education is Enlightenment, Ignorance is Darkness
5. On the Margins of Vologda Villages: Poor-Performing and “Mentally-Deficient” Students

Part III. Agrarian Institutes: "High Modernity" in the Rural Outback.
6. Cadres for the Village
7. Molochnoe: Urban Meets Rural

Part IV. The Rural Komsomol and the Reproduction of Inequality
8. Modernity’s Conductor and Hostages of Backwardness
9. The Invisible Komsomol: Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz VLKSM Organizations

Conclusion
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Übersetzer	Maeve Zimmerbaum
Zusatzinfo	14 illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 231 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4875-5038-3 / 1487550383
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-5038-7 / 9781487550387
Zustand	Neuware