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Stanislav Shatsky

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93: 84:'s focus on an aesthetically based, free education. Placing these ideas in a Marxist framework, Shatskii hoped that a communist education – founded on the principles of cooperation and self-motivation – would release the child's innate potential and help him develop into a well-rounded human being. His ideal student was a child that appreciated art, culture, and music, yet also knew the value of a hard day's work: "A child of high culture with callused hands". 214:. Currently, many of Shatskii's ideas are being rehabilitated in Russia (most notably, Feliks Fradkin and Gennadii Malinin have published books and articles on Shatskii's hidden legacy - see below). Furthermore, an annual conference in Obninsk, Russia (not far from Shatskii's Kaluga-based schools of the First Experimental Station) is convened in his honor. Finally, in the west, Shatskii has been the subject of recent articles in the 197:' of 1928 removed Shatskii and other like-minded intellectuals from positions of power within the educational apparatus. Shatskii's First Experimental Station would be closed down by Soviet power in 1932 as part of the Stalinist shift to a more ideological approach to education. Shatskii himself died 30 October 1934, as rumors circulated that he was going to be sent to the 165:
educators and represented the largest, most radical experimental educational institution in the world. As Stalin sought to impose ideological control over the Soviet state, the First Experimental Station was reorganized by Soviet authorities in 1932 and Shatskii was removed from his position. Shatskii died of natural causes in 1934.
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and Kaluga sections, this organization was vast, employing hundreds of teachers, incorporating village and city schools, libraries, children's clubs, reading huts, and demanding a large amount of resources from the government. This school complex would become the envy of international progressive
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into their educational approach (see Declaration on the United Labor School in W. Rosenburg, Bolshevik Visions: First Phase of the Cultural Revolution, 1984). In 1919, he set up the First Experimental Station (Pervaia Opytnaia Stantsiia), which was a massive network of experimental institutions.
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capitalist system. The importance of his work is only recently being recognized as many of his publications were suppressed by Stalin and the Soviet educational orthodoxy that sought to ensure that all 'communist education' had a class-based element. He deserves a place in Russian pedagogy with
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Kevin. J. Brehony Representations of Socialist educational experiments in the 1920s and 1930s: The place of the Sciences of Education in R. Hofstetter and B. Schneuwly (Eds). Passion, fusion, tension. New Education and Educational sciences - Education nouvelle et Sciences de l'éducation (end
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The first of its kind in the Imperial Russia, the loose arrangement of institutions in the Settlement attracted intellectuals and businessmen who shared Shatskii's view that education was a non-violent path to healing the sores of a divided tsarist society. Due to police suspicion of seditious
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in the creation of a new communist man. He also resisted indoctrinational techniques, instead preferring to demonstrate to pupils the relevance and importance of a reasoned approach to life. For Shatskii, true communist education was the release of the individual from the strictures of the
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Most of Shatskii's work was suppressed by Stalinist officials as the progressive approach of the Soviet Union in the 1920s was redrawn as heretical and bourgeois, but his emphasis on activity and the joy of learning could be found in later Soviet pedagogues, including
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William Partlett. "Breaching Cultural Worlds with the Village School: Educational Visions, Local Initiative, and Rural Experience at S.T. Shatsky’s Kaluga School System, 1919-1931." Slavonic and East European Review, Vol 82, No. 4, October, 2004: 847-885.
285: 277: 264: 256: 139:, the Settlement was closed down by police in May, 1908 (Zelenko ended up in jail for a few months). Later, Shatskii established a rural summer colony called The Invigorating Life (Бодрая жизнь, Bodraia zhizn') in rural Kaluga region (near 315:
William Partlett. "The Cultural Revolution in the Village School: S. T. Shatskii’s Kaluga School Complex, 1919-1932." Journal of the Oxford University History Society. No. 3, Michaelmas 2005.
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His first major educational institution was The Settlement (Setlment) which was established in northern Moscow in 1905. This complex of institutions drew its ideological inspiration from the
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Yordanka Valkanova, and Kevin J. Brehony "The 'Gifts' and 'Contributions'. Friedrich Froebel and Russian education from 1850 to 1920." History of Education 35(2) 2006: 189-207.
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William Partlett. "Bourgeois Ideas in Communist Construction: The Development of Stanislav Shatskii's Teacher Training Methods." History of Education 35, 2006: 453-474.
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His work as a communist educator complicates our understanding of communist education. Shatskii, unlike those who would follow him, denied the primacy of politics and
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had lived for a year, the Settlement was a complex of children's clubs and informal classes. At the center of the Settlement was the Zelenko-designed
131:. The Club was a part of a larger drive to set up a cultural and social center in remote working class district of Moscow (Miusskaya Square project). 361: 327:
William Partlett. Building Soviet Citizens with American Tools: Russian Revolutions and S. T. Shatskii's Rural Schools, 1905-1932. 2011.
186: 53:, Shatskii imported many of the values of late tsarist educational experimentation (many of which were based on the methods of American 49:
Shatskii established a number of experimental and progressive educational institutions between 1905 and 1934. A member of the Russian
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Feliks Fradkin. "S. T. Shatskii’s Last Years", in School and Society in Tsarist and Soviet Russia, B. Elkof (ed.) Basingstoke, 1993.
215: 366: 218:(October, 2004), the Journal of the Oxford University History Society (2005), and the History of Education (see below) 371: 356: 152: 227: 156: 155:, Shatskii's initial opposition to Soviet power faded as Soviet authorities adopted many of values and ideas of 328: 92: 54: 268: 57:) into early Soviet approaches to creating a communist school and constructing 'a new Soviet person'. 351: 346: 302:
Vladimir Beliaev. Stanovlenie i Razvitie Innovatsionnoi Kontseptsii S. T. Shatskogo. Moscow, 1999.
35: 127:, opened in 1907 in Moscow's blue-collar North End (Vadkovsky Lane, 5) and funded by industrialist 112: 238:, blending his own liberational, progressive educational ideas with Marx's materialist approach. 194: 105: 143:), in which he stressed labor-based methods of education, creativity, and artistic expression. 309:
Feliks Fradkin and Gennadii Malinin. Vospitatel'naia Sistema S. T. Shatskogo. Moscow, 1993.
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A Teacher’s Experience: A Collection. Translated into English by Catherine Judelson. 1981.
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He sought to build a liberal, child-centered version of communist education that drew on
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19th-middle 20th century - fin 19e-milieu 20e siècle. Bern, Peter Lang: 2006. 271-304.
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D. Bershadskaia. Pedagogicheskie vzgliady i deiatel’nost S. T. Shatskogo (Moscow, 1960)
182: 128: 97: 61: 50: 39: 257:Педагогические сочинения. В 4 т. Т.1 . - М. : Изд-во Акад. пед. наук РСФСР, 1962. 340: 286:Педагогические сочинения. В 4 т. Т.4 . - М. : Изд-во Акад. пед. наук РСФСР,1965. 278:Педагогические сочинения. В 4 т. Т.3 . - М. : Изд-во Акад. пед. наук РСФСР,1964. 265:Педагогические сочинения. В 4 т. Т.2 . - М. : Изд-во Акад. пед. наук РСФСР,1964. 190: 211: 181:). His meteoric rise to power suggested the importance of the Russian educational 174: 43: 81: 231: 116: 77: 329:
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to early Soviet governance. Shatskii eventually joined the
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Shatskii also became an important educational leader in the
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Soviet-era experimentation: The First Experimental Station
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1907 Communal Club for working teenagers, funded by
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Index

Smolensk
Moscow
humanistic educator
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
intelligentsia
progressive education
class struggle
Anton Makarenko
Vygotsky
John Dewey
Lev Tolstoi

Nikolay Vtorov
Alexander Zelenko
Stanislav Shatskii
settlement movement
Hull House
Alexander Zelenko
Nikolay Vtorov
communism
Obninsk
Russian Revolution
educational progressivism
Moscow
Soviet Union
intelligentsia
Communist Party
Joseph Stalin
Great Break

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