Education and Young People - Lenin's Failures

Question 1

1. Why was Lunarchsky’s vision never realised?
   - This meant that there was no what?
2. What happened to many schools during the C.W?
3. What were the effects of significant cuts to funding when NEP was introduced?
4. In the first __ months of NEP, the number of school children was reduced by __%.

Answer 1

1. Instability of Russia during Civil War.
   - Reliable system for teacher training.
2. Requisitioned by the Red Army.
3. Some schools forced to close, fees introduced for most.
4. 18, 50%.

Question 2

1. From what year could fees be scrapped?
   - What % of students paid fees to attend schools between 1921 and 27?
2. How many years did you have to complete of school to attend uni?
   - What was the effect of this?
3. By ____ only __% of primary school aged children were in school.

Answer 2

1. 1927. • 97%.
2. 9 years.
   - Not many attended uni.
3. 1928, 60%.

Question 3

1. What % of working class students finished secondary school?
   - This was compared with __% of middle-class students.
2. What did Komsomol members have a reputation for?

Answer 3

1. 3%.
   - 25%.
2. Drunkeness and hooliganism.