problems with education

• Communists


  The political party that took power in Russia after the 1917 revolution
• Questions raised about education

  1. Should Communists continue with traditional forms of education or create a new kind of revolutionary education?

  2. Should Communists work with educated people even though they were part of the original elite?

  3. How should Communists educated the millions of workers with little to no formal education?
• Practical problems of organising education included low levels of literacy, with only around 32% of the population able to read and write by 1914
• Educational inequalities existed, with Russians tending to be better educated than non-Russians
• Urban education was better than rural education
• After 1918, Russia was in a state of transition rather than an actual socialist state
• Some Communists argued that in the short term, compromises were vital between socialist principles and the need to rebuild society after the Civil War