In the Grip of De-Stalinization: Mosaics of Everyday Life of Pedagogical Institutes of the UkrSSR in 1953–1964

Abstract

The author conducted a comprehensive study of the everyday life of the higher pedagogical schools’ staffs in 1953-1964 based on a wide range of published literature and archival documents. The thesis solves issue of the evolution of life conditions of students and teachers along with the description of logistical base changing. The analysis of teachers’ wealth and purchasing power is also shown in the research. There is also given the characteristic of everyday religious and deviant behavior motives of educators as well as the characteristics of leisure-time. The work describes the changing attitude of the higher schools staffs towards the reforms in education. Monograph shows the place for students and teachers in the process of growing connections of society with farming and agriculture. The characteristic of the language situation in higher educational school during the days of the “thaw” is also described.