Uprooting Otherness
Subtitle: The Literacy Campaign in NEP-Era
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781575910307
Subjects: Higher & further education; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Illiteracy And Literacy Education; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Russia; Literacy; 1917-1928; 20th century; Economic policy; History; Literacy programs; Soviet Union
Description: "Uprooting Otherness treats the main theme of how literacy and the literacy campaign were perceived, not only by those implementing it, but by those who were its target during the era of the New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921-1928. By showing what priority the Soviet leadership placed on literacy, Clark shows how a perception of the need for complete literacy reflected the value placed on human capital during this evolutionary period in Soviet history.".

"This book demonstrates how the State attempted to impose literacy on illiterate portions of its population, and how various segments of the population reacted to the subsequent campaign."--BOOK JACKET.