From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, the Soviet government sent thousands of its citizens to Africa and Asia to work as teachers in secondary schools and higher education institutions on assignments lasting one to three years. These teachers served as the Soviet Union’s foot soldiers in the field of education, an important theater of the Cold War. Using reports from the Soviet Ministry of Education and post-Soviet memoirs, the article examines these educators’ experiences in classrooms, in teachers’ lounges, and at home. It is structured around two central questions: what did these educators teach, and what, in turn, did they learn? The article argues that the experiences of many Soviet teachers in Africa and Asia appear to have rei...
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A growing literature has shed new light on interactions between the Soviet Union and Africa, notably...
grantor: University of TorontoThese qualitative life history case studies explore how five...
As this introductory study argues, state socialist experts dispatched for Africa during the Cold War...
A growing literature has shed new light on interactions between the Soviet Union and Africa, notably...
The paper discusses the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on teachers' life and work in B...
Ces journées ont pour objectifs de : 1/ retracer l’évolution des politiques soviétiques, des stratég...
1 v. (various pagings) ; 29 cm.Within the span of less than a decade, Russian teachers have lived th...
This study explores primary school teachers' experiences of the changes that have occurred in educat...
As part of its new international policy toward the Third World since the second half of the 1950s, t...
Beginning in the 1960s, young students from the global South began coming to the Soviet Union to ear...
The paper discusses the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on teachers\u27 life and work in...
International audienceThis paper analyses the exchange stays and work of French lecturers and langua...
This article is based on an analysis of data gathered through two qualitative studies conducted by t...
This working paper is intended as an overview of the Soviet Union’s and Eastern Europe’s aid to and ...
The article deals with the state’s educational strategy after the Great Patriotic War. These are act...
A growing literature has shed new light on interactions between the Soviet Union and Africa, notably...
grantor: University of TorontoThese qualitative life history case studies explore how five...
As this introductory study argues, state socialist experts dispatched for Africa during the Cold War...
A growing literature has shed new light on interactions between the Soviet Union and Africa, notably...
The paper discusses the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on teachers' life and work in B...
Ces journées ont pour objectifs de : 1/ retracer l’évolution des politiques soviétiques, des stratég...
1 v. (various pagings) ; 29 cm.Within the span of less than a decade, Russian teachers have lived th...
This study explores primary school teachers' experiences of the changes that have occurred in educat...