Education and the Struggle for Russia’s Future: V. A. Gerd and the Fate of the Putilovskoe kommercheskoe uchilishche (Research Brief)
September 30, 2003
One aim of my research was to find out more about the circumstances surrounding the arrest of Vladimir Gerd (onetime head of the All-Russian Teachers’ Union and briefly a Menshevik), his assistant director, and thirty Putilov workers in June 1923 by the Petrograd GPU, and about the subsequent fate of the school and of other former kommercheskie uchilishcha.
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Douglas R. Weiner, of the University of Arizona at Austin, was a 2002-03 Short-Term Travel Grants fellow.
