page_title: Stanislav Shatsky
section_title: Imperial-era educational projects
hierarchical_section_title: Stanislav Shatsky / Imperial-era educational projects
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Москва, Вадковский переулок, 5. Здание построено в 1907 году архитектором А. У. Зеленко и педагогом С. Т. Шацким как учебно-воспитательный клуб для детей рабочих окраин Communal Club for Working Children, by Alexander Zelenko, 1907. Vadkovsky Lane, 5, Moscow, Russia (historical photos and other works by Zelenko - http://all-photo.ru:8102/search/index.ru.html?word=13347 )
context_page_description: Stanislav Shatskii was an important humanistic educator, writer, and educational administrator in the late Russian Empire and the early Soviet Union.
  Shatskii established a number of experimental and progressive educational institutions between 1905 and 1934. A member of the Russian intelligentsia, Shatskii imported many of the values of late tsarist educational experimentation into early Soviet approaches to creating a communist school and constructing 'a new Soviet person'.
  His work as a communist educator complicates our understanding of communist education. Shatskii, unlike those who would follow him, denied the primacy of politics and class struggle in the creation of a new communist man. He also resisted indoctrinational techniques, instead preferring to demonstrate to pupils the relevance and importance of a reasoned approach to life. For Shatskii, true communist education was the release of the individual from the strictures of the capitalist system.
context_section_description: His first major educational institution was The Settlement (Setlment) which was established in northern Moscow in 1905.  This complex of institutions drew its ideological inspiration from the settlement movement.  Specifically modelled on the Chicago-based Hull House, where Shatskii's collaborator, architect Alexander Zelenko had lived for a year, the Settlement was a complex of children's clubs and informal classes.  At the center of the Settlement was the Zelenko-designed Communal Club for working children, opened in 1907 in Moscow's blue-collar North End (Vadkovsky Lane, 5) and funded by industrialist Nikolay Vtorov. The Club was a part of a larger drive to set up a cultural and social center in remote working class district of Moscow (Miusskaya Square project).
  The first of its kind in the Imperial Russia, the loose arrangement of institutions in the Settlement attracted intellectuals and businessmen who shared Shatskii's view that education was a non-violent path to healing the sores of a divided tsarist society. Due to police suspicion of seditious teaching and charges of communism, the Settlement was closed down by police in May, 1908 (Zelenko ended up in jail for a few months). Later, Shatskii established a rural summer colony called The Invigorating Life (Бодрая жизнь, Bodraia zhizn') in rural Kaluga region (near Obninsk), in which he stressed labor-based methods of education, creativity, and artistic expression.
caption: 1907 Communal Club for working teenagers, funded by Nikolay Vtorov, designed and managed by Alexander Zelenko and Stanislav Shatskii
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