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Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951

Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951

Qualls, Karl D.

Paperback

General EducationRussian HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1487522754
ISBN13: 9781487522759
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Feb 4 2020
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Stalin's Niños examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly three thousand child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. An analysis of the archival record and numerous letters, oral histories, and memoirs uncovers a little-known story that describes the Soviet transformation of children into future builders of communism and reveals the educational techniques shared with other modern states. Classroom education taught patriotism for the two homelands and the importance of emulating Spanish and Soviet heroes, scientists, soldiers, and artists. Extra-curricular clubs and activities reinforced classroom experiences and helped discipline the mind, body, and behaviours. Adult mentors, like the heroes studied in the classroom, provided models to emulate and became the tangible expression of the ideal Spaniard and Soviet. The Basque and Spanish children thus were transformed into hybrid Hispano-Soviets fully engaged with their native language, culture, and traditions while also imbued with Russian language and culture and Soviet ideals of hard work, comradery, internationalism, and sacrifice for ideals and others.

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