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The Development of Literacy in Russia and the USSR from the Tenth to the Twentieth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Boris N. Mironov
Boris N. Mironov*
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Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences
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The history of literacy in Russia may be divided into four periods: 1) the Kievan, from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries (before the Mongol invasion); 2) the medieval (Muscovite), from the middle of the thirteenth to the end of the seventeenth centuries; 3) the imperial, from the eighteenth century to 1917; and 4) the Soviet, after 1917. For each of these periods distinctive sources have been preserved that call for special handling and methodologies.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , Summer 1991 , pp. 229 - 252
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Copyright © 1991 by the History of Education Society 

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