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  2. Education in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    In Imperial Russia, according to the 1897 Population Census, literate people made up 28.4 percent of the population.A mere 13% of women were literate. In the first year after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, the schools were left very much to their own devices due to the ongoing civil war of 1917–1923.

  3. Specialized schools in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    Of the specialized school in the Soviet Union (Russian: Школа с уклоном, Shkola s uklonom) there were three typical types: physical/mathematical schools, with enhanced education in physics and mathematics, sports school, and schools with advanced study of a foreign language of choice.

  4. History of education - Wikipedia

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    Language policy changed over time, perhaps marked first of all by the government's mandating in 1938 the teaching of Russian as a required subject of study in every non-Russian school, and then especially beginning in the latter 1950s a growing conversion of non-Russian schools to Russian as the main medium of instruction.

  5. Anatoly Lunacharsky - Wikipedia

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    Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (Russian: Анато́лий Васи́льевич Лунача́рский, born Anatoly Aleksandrovich Antonov; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1875 – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar (Narkompros) responsible for the Ministry of Education as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist ...

  6. Imperial Moscow University - Wikipedia

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    The rector was annually elected by a professorial assembly (closed voting with the help of white and black balls) and was approved personally by the Emperor of the Russian Empire. The deans of the faculties were also subject to election. The first elected rector was the historian and geographer Khariton Chebotarev. At the meetings of the ...

  7. Russian Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a civil war .

  8. Education in Russia - Wikipedia

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    The 2007–2008 number includes 4,965 advanced learning schools specializing in foreign languages, mathematics etc.; 2,347 advanced general-purpose schools, [28] and 1,884 schools for all categories of disabled children; [27] it does not include vocational technical school and technicums. Private schools accounted for 0.3% of elementary school ...

  9. Cantonist - Wikipedia

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    Polish Catholic boys were subject to similar pressure to convert and assimilate as the Russian Empire was hostile to Catholicism and Polish nationalism. Initially conversions were few, but after the escalation of missionary activities in the cantonist schools in 1844, about one third of all Jewish cantonists would have undergone conversion.