Rabfak
Rabfak (from Russian: рабфак, a syllabic abbreviation of Рабочий факультет, Rabochiy fakul′tet, "workers' faculty") was a type of educational institution in the Soviet Union[1] which prepared Soviet workers and peasants to enter institutions of higher education. Such institutions were present in every faculty and institute for higher learning and tended to contain a density of members of either the Komsomol or the VKP(B). The rabfaki were created by Mikhail Pokrovskii in March 1919 and were active until the 1940s.[2] They were intended for adults who had received little formal schooling and were intended as a fulfilment of the promises of the Revolution for upwards social mobility for workers and peasants.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Unfried, Berthold (2006). "Ich bekenne": katholische Beichte und sowjetische Selbstkritik. Studien zur historischen Sozialwissenschaft. Frankfurt/Main: Campus-Verl. p. 308. ISBN 978-3-593-37869-5.
- ↑ David-Fox, Michael (1997). Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929. Cornell University Press. p. 46.
- ↑ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (1979). Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934. Cambridge University Press. pp. 50–1.
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