Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Translator’s Note xi
5. Preface xiii
6. List of Abbreviations xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. PART ONE Being Rural in the USSR
9. Chapter One Ruralism in the State Discourse of Developed Socialism 23
10. Chapter Two Staying Rural: Ex-Peasants and Identities 34
11. Part Two: Rural Schools
12. Chapter Three The Colonization of Rural Knowledge Begins 59
13. Chapter Four Education Is Enlightenment, Ignorance Is Darkness 90
14. Chapter Five On the Margins of Vologda Villages: Poor-Performing and “Mentally Deficient” Students 109
15. Part Three: Agrarian Institutes: “High Modernity” in the Rural Outback
16. Chapter Six Cadres for the Village 137
17. Chapter Seven Molochnoe: Urban Meets Rural 171
18. PART FOUR The Rural Komsomol and the Reproduction of Inequality
19. Chapter Eight Modernity’s Conduit and Hostages of Backwardness 203
20. Chapter Nine The Invisible Komsomol: Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz VLKSM Organizations 227
21. Conclusion 252
22. Notes 259
23. Bibliography 303
24. Index 331