From Disciplined to Spontaneous Child: The Evolving Models of Childrearing in Soviet Parenting Manuals during Post-Stalinism

Natalia Chernyaeva

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From Disciplined to Spontaneous Child: The Evolving Models of Childrearing in Soviet Parenting Manuals during Post-Stalinism

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Pages:: 79–86

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880467_009

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Drawing on the body of advice literature on child upbringing published in the Soviet Union from 1953 (the demise of the Stalin regime) to the 1980s, this paper explores the complex relationship between socioeconomic and political developments of the country during post-Stalinism and the changing popular concepts of what constituted good parenting and a model child at that time. Unlike the notion of a thoroughly disciplined and ‘cultured’ child that held sway in the Soviet post-World War II literature on child upbringing, the 1960s and the 1970s saw the emergence of what historians and educationalists call the ‘child-guided’ model of upbringing. According to this model, every child was to be understood as a unique personality developing at his or her own pace, who needed to be followed rather than guided, and the parents’ job was to be attentive to the child’s cues and requests.

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Negotiating Childhoods

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 08 May 2010

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