Eklof Ben. Russian peasant schools. Officialdom, village culture and popular pedagogy, 1861 - 1914

University of California Press, 1992. — 667 p.
ISBN10: 0520069579
ISBN13: 978-0520069572This pioneering study of primary schools in the Russian countryside during the late tsarist period examines the contribution of education to the transition to modernity. The author links social, institutional, and cultural history, thus providing a multi-dimensional description of the village response to pressures of the modern world.