Education and Young People - Lenin's Successes

Question 1

1. Under Lenin, education was theoretically what?
2. What was anything that encouraged competition between students considered as?
3. What did this lead to the abolishment of?

Answer 1

1. Free, secular and available to all
2. Bourgeious.
3. Testing, grading and reports.

Question 2

1. Who was made Commissar for Education in 1917?
   - What was his attitude towards education?
2. What did the Likbez campaign require?
   - What year was this active from?
3. What did Trotsky introduce for the Red Army during the Civil War?
   - Between 1918 and 25, the % of literate soldiers increased from what to what?

Answer 2

1. Lunacharsky.
   - Liberal, favoured progressive teaching methods.
2. All people from ages 8-50 to become literate in their native language
   - 1919.
3. Literacy classes.
   - 50-100%.

Question 3

1. What 2 campaigns were introduced to make young people into discipined and keen CP supporters?
2. Literacy rates improved from __% in 19__ to __% in 19__.
3. What % more primary aged children were in school in 1928, compared to prior to the 1917 revolution?

Answer 3

1. Komsomol for people aged 16-28.
   Young Pioneers for people aged 10-15.
2. 40% in 1914 to 55% in 1928.
3. 10% more.