Classroom and empire
Subtitle: the politics of schooling Russia's Eastern nationalities, 1860-1917
By: Wayne Dowler.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Education -- Asiatic Russia -- History -- 19th century; Education -- Asiatic Russia -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism and education -- Asiatic Russia; Éducation -- Sibérie (Russie) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Éducation -- Sibérie (Russie) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle; Nationalisme et éducation -- Sibérie (Russie)
Description: The central challenge to imperial powers entering the modern era was the schooling of their peoples. How could they insure the literacy that modernity required without providing a foundation for nationalism among the colonized? In Russia's eastern empire in the late nineteenth century, Orthodox Christianity vied with Islam for people's souls, Russian language competed with Tatar and local vernaculars, and western secularism undermined traditional religious authority among both Muslim and Orthodox faithful. The clash with local languages shook the stability of the empire. This book tells the story of the politics of alphabets, languages, and schooling in the eastern empire of Russia from 1860 to 1917.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. [273]-287 and index.