The educational reforms of the Jadidist Movement

This thesis concerns the Jadidist movement--a reform movement in Russian Central Asia centered around an attempt to westernize the school system in that area. The leader of that movement was Ismail Bey Gasprinskii, a well traveled Tatar educator and journalist. Out of Gasprinskii's attempts at educational reforms grew other movements such as language reform and a small nationalist movement. Gasprinskii and his followers came into conflict with the Russian government. While the Tatars were engaged in an attempt to modernize their society, the Russian government set out on a course of russification. At the beginning of the twentieth century these two forces vied for dominance. The First World War and later Russia's Civil War cut the contest short. This thesis examines these movements, their causes and their affects on Tatar society. By using archival material, some only recently discovered, this paper is a study of a movement not allowed to live and its life.

Name thesis:degree_name

M. A.

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Department dc:contributor.department

History

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1979

Author dc:creator

• Rordam, Ronnie F.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10919/118893

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/118893