Word: commisars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nice person to be Commisar of Education!"-that was what Bolshevist intellectuals thought but dared not say last week when they heard that Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin had placed in charge of Russia's schools and universities bold, dashing, ruthless General Andrei Bubnov (pronounced Boobnoff). Dictator Stalin himself is not exactly educated, speaks no language except Russian, has to look up places like "Portugal" in a dog-eared atlas. He knows well enough that General Bubnov was expelled from the Moscow School of Agriculture 26 years ago as a "dangerous radical" and has had little or no formal education...
Education, under the direction of Soviet Commisar Lunacharsky, is proceeding with a heavy emphasis upon Marxian doctrines. An attempt to bring students face to face with "reality" is hailed by the Bolsheviki as tending to fit pupils for the rugged highway of life. The former propertied class who have young children in school, complain that the seeds of a godless irresponsibility are being sown...