Soviet Secular Education and its Evolution in Central Asia: Some Literary Reflection

The Soviet system found the most effective way to disseminate the message of Revolution through the spread of education. In the countries of the Soviet East, especially Central Asia, these new experiences created by the atmosphere of education and enlightenment were often highlighted in many of their literary imagination. That the Soviet system had created an unimaginable increase in the scope of mass education, breaking all the barriers of a traditional society, was acknowledged in many of the contemporary local literatures of this land. But, at the same time, these literatures showed how the...