Abbosbek Mominov

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A page from a 1941 Uzbek school primer declares: “We gain knowledge in Stalin's school.” Credit: Oqil Sharafiddinov, Alifbe (1941), p. 69. Courtesy of the A. Avloni National Institute of Pedagogical Excellence, Tashkent.

From “Obey the Tsar” to the “Stalin School”: What Sixty Years of Textbooks Taught Children in Turkestan

From tsarist lessons demanding obedience to Stalin-era primers promoting communist ideals, historical textbooks reveal how successive regimes sought to shape children's loyalties in Central Asia. [...]