{"product_id":"9781442648937","title":"Breaking the Tongue : Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-1934","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1920s and early 1930s, the Communist Party embraced a policy to promote national consciousness among the Soviet Union’s many national minorities as a means of Sovietizing them. In Ukraine, Ukrainian-language schooling, coupled with pedagogical innovation, was expected to serve as the lynchpin of this social transformation for the republic’s children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first detailed archival study of the local implications of Soviet nationalities policy, \u003ci\u003eBreaking the Tongue \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the implementation of the Ukrainization of schools and children’s organizations. Matthew D. Pauly demonstrates that Ukrainization faltered because of local resistance, a lack of resources, and Communist Party anxieties about nationalism and a weakening of Soviet power – a process that culminated in mass arrests, repression, and a fundamental adjustment in policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026587861232,"sku":"9781442648937","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442648937_p0.jpg?v=1763824637","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442648937","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}