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In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Communist Party embraced a policy to promote national consciousness among the Soviet Union's many national minorities as a means of Sovietizing them. In Ukraine, Ukrainian-language schooling, coupled with pedagogical innovation, was expected to serve as the lynchpin of this social transformation for the republic's children. The first detailed archival study of the local implications of Soviet nationalities policy, Breaking the Tongue examines the implementation of the Ukrainization of schools and children's organizations. Matthew D. Pauly demonstrates that Ukrainization faltered because of local resistance, a lack of resources, and Communist Party anxieties about nationalism and a weakening of Soviet power - a process that culminated in mass arrests, repression, and a fundamental adjustment in policy.
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'This is an important monograph based on meticulous archival research and a solid theoretical foundation, Pauly's study will be of interest to historians of Ukraine and the Soviet Union, as well as anyone investigating the relationship between education and national identity.'
- Christopher Gilley - Revolutionary Russia vol 28:02:2015'This clearly written and effectively researched monograph focuses on educational policy as it was implemented, challenged, and ultimately practiced in the school houses of Ukraine.... Breaking the Tongue adds an important dimension to Soviet childhood studies.'
- Tom Ewing - Slavic Review vol 75:02:2016'It is a very important step forward in our general understanding of Ukrainization and Soviet nationality politics in the 1920s. It should be read by all those who study Soviet policies of the 1920s and Russian-Ukrainian relations.'
- Alexey Miller - American Historical Review December 2015'Pauly's highly detailed and highly nuanced monograph is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of how Ukrainization evolved and how the multinational USSR dealt with social contradictions and unintended consequences in its early period.'
- George O. Liber - The Russian Review, vol 75:01:2016'Packed with biographies of little-known victims of the 1930s purges, this book gives valuable insight into a pivotal aspect of Soviet history that deserves similar attention in other regions of the former USSR... Highly recommended.'
- E.J. Vajda - Choice Magazine vol 52:10:2015'Pauly's new book brings to light extensive archival material and offers a unique insight into the workings of the Soviet nationalities policy on the micro-level of the school.... A remarkably timely and relevant contribution to the field.'
- V.Reznik - Slavonic & East European Review vol 93:04:2015'Breaking the Tongue will be a very useful volume. It is scholarly, well-researched, and highly contextual study with ample sources, including good use of original Ukrainian documents.'
- Svitlana Malykhina - Canadian Journal of History vol 52:02:2017'Pauly's book offers a unique and important study of the intersection of school reform and nationalities policy.'
- Lisa A. Kirschenbaum - Historical Studies in Education vol 29:02:2017"Matthew Pauly's Breaking the Tongue is a sober, lucid, and innovative study that will be of great interest to both historians and linguists. His careful investigation of what seems to have actually happened in the schools and other institutions of Ukraine at the time when they were allegedly being Ukrainized demonstrates that Soviet Ukrainization could not in fact work, not only because of the Soviets' highly ambiguous attitude to their own policy, but also because the entire endeavour suffered from the almost complete lack of the most basic resources, including teachers, textbooks, school buildings, and even paper."
- Michael Moser, Institut für Slawistik, University of ViennaMatthew D. Pauly is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University.
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- PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1442648937
- ISBN 13 9781442648937
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages432
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