Little Pieces of the Puzzle: The Party’s District Committees and the Administration of Schools, 1931-1941 (Research Brief)

In the summer of 2002, I spent more than eight weeks in the Russian city of Kirov. There I examined the role in school administration of district committees of the Young Communist League and Communist Party in the 1930s. That research is part of a larger project on educational bureaucracy in the Russian Republic from 1931 to 1941.

Download the pdf at the top of this page for the full brief.

Larry E. Holmes, of the University of South Alabama, was a 2002-03 Short-Term Travel Grants fellow.