Translation
One and a half months ago I gave up smoking and I promise to smoke no
more
– N.I. Bukharin, 18 April 1928,
Moscow.
THE COVER of this edition of Ogonek depicts a well-groomed woman
conversing with a peasant. It deals with
one of the daunting problems facing the country in the 1920s and 30s. Underneath is a message from N. Krupskaya,
Lenin’s widow
“Every literate person, teach an illiterate one!” If you can’t teach one yourself, if you don’t
have time – then take charge of an illiterate and pay the cost of his lessons
so he can have an alphabet book, paper, pencils, so his education can be
followed all the way through. We need
every communist, komsomol and pioneer to be able to say, ‘Petr Petrovich Petrov
was illiterate, I took charge of him and now he is literate, his address is
such-and-such. You can check the
facts’. That’s what every Party member,
komsomol, every literate member of the ODN*, every literate trade-unionist,
every literate Red Army soldier should do.”
*Oбщество «Долой неграмотность» – The ‘Down with
Illiteracy’ Society, a USSR voluntary organisation that from 1923 to 1936 taught
over 5 million people, mostly
peasants, to read and write
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