title: Latin in Soviet Secondary Schools (1948–1954): Philology and Ideology
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metadata.value: Skvortsov, Artyom M.
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metadata.value: 2024-12-03T17:45:26Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Skvortsov A. M. Latin in Soviet Secondary Schools (1948–1954): Philology and Ideology. Philologia Classica 2024, 19 (1), 164–181. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2024.111 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2024.111
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48097
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metadata.value: In the years between 1948 and 1954, several schools in the Soviet Union incorporated Latin
  into the curriculum for high school students. To implement the reform, S. P. Kondratyev and
  A. I. Vasnetsov developed a textbook that has gone through four editions. The textbook includes
  chrestomathic materials with excerpts from Latin texts and methodological recommendations.
  The manuals were compiled hastily without adequate discussion of their content.
  The innovation, which consisted in the reorganization of grammatical material, the different
  selection of original Latin texts (extracts from the works of Herodotus, Justin, and Maciej
  Miechowita describing the ancient state of territories that were part of the Soviet Union),
  and an increase in the proportion of historical and linguistic material in the explanation of
  grammar rules, met with disapproval from the professional community of classical philologists,
  who criticized the teaching and methodological approach of the course. Kondratyev and
  Vasnetsov only made concessions by 1953, but they tried to strengthen the ideological and
  educational components in the teaching of Latin in schools. The adapted texts and proverbs
  chosen for the students demonstrated those characteristics of the Romans that corresponded
  with the ideal of a Soviet person (collectivism, courage, determination in overcoming difficulties,
  humility, comradeship, selflessness, etc.). A number of historical and linguistic references
  in textbooks allude to contemporary events and, consequently, play the role of political education.
  For example, the preservation of the Roman vocabulary in conditions of dependence on
  the Etruscans can be compared to the resistance of the Slavic population in Bulgaria. However,
  the experiment was abandoned in 1954. This article considers the teaching and methodology
  of Latin as a marker of ideological processes. The introduction of this subject in secondary
  schools fits within the general context of late Stalinist classicism.
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metadata.value: The article was carried out within the framework of the Russian Science Foundation project
  no. 24-28-01315 “Post-war classicism: social order and intellectual space of Soviet specialists in ancient
  history, 1945–1956”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 19; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of classical philology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: secondary school
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of education
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet school
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Latin in Soviet Secondary Schools (1948–1954): Philology and Ideology
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metadata.value: Article
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