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Legitimising the Soviet Regime: School no. 25, 1931–1937

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School and Society in Tsarist and Soviet Russia

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In 1935, Aleksandr Semenovich Tolstoy, Deputy Director for Academic Affairs of Moscow’s School no. 25, spoke of his school’s service to the Soviet regime:

On the banner of School No. 25 are printed the words of the great leader of the world’s proletariat, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin: ‘We must first of all learn to value people’. The leadership and entire collective of School No. 25 firmly believes these words, and under this banner it will reach new heights.1

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  1. A. S. Tolstoy, 25 obraztsovaia shkola (Moscow, 1935) p. 184.

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  1. Larry E. Holmes
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  1. Institute for the Study of Soviet Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

    Ben Eklof (Associate Professor of History and Co-Director) (Associate Professor of History and Co-Director)

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© 1993 International Council for Soviet and East European Studies, and Ben Eklof

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Holmes, L.E. (1993). Legitimising the Soviet Regime: School no. 25, 1931–1937. In: Eklof, B. (eds) School and Society in Tsarist and Soviet Russia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22817-1_9

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