War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power examines the history of the Pedagogical Institute, located in the USSR's Kirov region from 1941 to 1952. Holmes reveals a tangled and complex relationship of
Grand Theater examines bureaucracy not as a readily identifiable structure but rather as a process of day-to-day operation. Thus it is concerned with how agencies of both the communist party and the s
"... an exciting, first-rate contribution to our understanding of Soviet history on several levels... and the relationship between tsarist and Soviet educational policies and practices." —Ben Eklof"La
