Educating the communists of the futurenotes on the educational life of the Spanish children evacuated to the USSR during the Spanish Civil War

  1. Verónica Sierra Blas
Revista:
Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education
  1. Collelldemont Pujadas, Eulàlia (coord.)
  2. Pozo Andrés, María del Mar del (coord.)
  3. Grosvenor, Ian (coord.)

ISSN: 0030-9230

Año de publicación: 2015

Título del ejemplar: Children, education and politics in everyday life: children, education and politics at a time of conflict – the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Volumen: 51

Número: 4

Páginas: 496-519

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2015.1051057 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education

Resumen

The high rate of child mortality registered during the early months of the Civil War led the Republican authorities to initiate several operations to evacuate youngsters with the purpose of protecting and saving the children of Spain. At the beginning, the children were evacuated to zones in the interior of the country far removed from the front lines. However, the rapid advance of the Nationalist Army caused the Government of the Republic to organise evacuations to other countries. The Soviet Union was one of many countries that offered to help the Republic. Between 1937 and 1938, minors numbering 2895 were taken under the protection of Narkompros in different collective Homes for Children (Dietsky Dom). This article discusses some of the educational practices carried out in the schools of these Homes, by analysing different documents produced by the children, both in this period (interscholastic and personal correspondence, school compositions, newspaper murals) as well as in their adult lives (autobiographies and memoirs). Through the analysis of these educative practices, the article will try to explain how the Soviet as well as the Spanish authorities wished to make these children into ideal communists, convinced that the future of Spain was in their hands.

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Financiadores

  • RESEARCH PROJECTS
    • HAR2011-25944
  • MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND COMPETITIVENESS, SPANISH GOVERNMENT
  • RESEARCH PROJECTS
    • HAR2014-51883-P
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