Home, school, and leisure in the Soviet Union
By: edited by Jenny Brine, Maureen Perrie, Andrew Sutton.
Contributors: Brine, J. J.; Perrie, Maureen, 1946-; Sutton, Andrew.; Barker, Geoffrey Russell,
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 1980
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Education -- Soviet Union; Day care centers -- Soviet Union; Recreation -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
"This volume is dedicated to the memory of Geoffrey Russell Barker, 1923-1977."
Table of contents: title: Housing ideals, structural constraints, and the emancipation of women / G.D. Andrusz; title: Domestic labour and Soviet society / Alix Holt; title: "A woman's right to choose" in the Soviet Union / Barbara Holland; title: Secondary education for all in a forward-looking society / Elisabeth Koutaissoff; title: Socialisation in the literature lesson / Felicity O'Dell; title: Soviet boarding education / John Dunstan; title: Soviet child care / Madeline Drake; title: Backward children in the USSR / Andrew Sutton; title: Achievements and problems in Soviet recreational planning / Denis J.B. Shaw; title: Sport in Soviet society / James Riordan; title: Reading as a leisure pursuit in the USSR / Jenny Brine; title: Geoffrey Barker, 1923-77 / R.W. Davies and James Riordan.