@article{4a5c7f10-5c3f-4766-b033-86f4b0335371, author = {Romuald Grzybowski}, title = {The Education of Rural Women in West Prussia as Seen by Anastazja Pospieszyłowa (born Czarlińska) (1801–1878)}, journal = {Polish Pedagogical Thought}, volume = {IV (2018)}, number = {Issue 4}, year = {2018}, issn = {2450-4572}, pages = {297-321},keywords = {Young Pioneers; Komsomol; Soviet Russia; A New Man; Homo Sovieticus; indoctrination; pioneer}, abstract = {The All-Union Pioneer Organization was established in Russia in 1922 by the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution as “a mass communist youth organization of the Soviet Union”. The strategic goal of the organization was to participate in the creation of a new man – homo sovieticus, a better kind of homo sapiens. To that end, the Young Pioneers recruited children of age 9–14 and subjected them to thorough ideological and political indoctrination tailored to the teachings of Lenin and Stalin. The activity of the Pioneer Organization was supervised by the ruling communist party, although the direct governing body was the Komsomol. Similarly to the Komsomol, the Young Pioneers had its own specific symbols, such as the red neck scarf, with three ends symbolizing three generations: the communists, the komsomolets and the pioneers; the pioneer badge; the salute; the uniform; the fanfare and the drum.}, doi = {10.4467/24504564PMP.18.015.8654}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/polska-mysl-pedagogiczna/article/idea-wychowania-nowego-czlowieka-homo-sovieticus-i-jej-odzwierciedlenie-w-zalozeniach-programowych-wszechzwiazkowej-organizacji-pionierskiej} }