Preparing for Reconstruction

Abstract

It is time to consider the impact of the two final war years on Soviet general schooling. We shall begin by surveying the series of major reforms enacted within three months in 1943; they sprang out of the existing situation but their effects were long-lasting or even permanent. Organisational problems, more ongoing and exacerbated by the war than originating in it, will then be examined. These too would continue to exercise the Soviet authorities into the postwar era.