[Banned] Kalashnikov, A. G. Essays on Marxist Pedagogy. Volume I. Sociology of Education, 1929. In Russian

Калашников, А. Г.
Очерки марксистской педагогики. Том I. Социология воспитания.
Москва: Работник Просвещения, 1929.
376 с.
Мягкий переплет, слегка увеличенный формат. 
Запрещенное издание. Второй том не вышел.
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Kalashnikov, A. G.
Essays on Marxist Pedagogy. Volume I. Sociology of Education (Ocherki marksistskoy pedagogiki. Tom I. Sotsiologiya vospitaniya).
Moscow: Rabotnik Prosveshcheniya, 1929.
376 p.
Softcover, slightly enlarged format.
Banned edition. The second volume was not published.

This first and only published volume of a planned series represents a pivotal and tragic work in the history of Soviet pedagogical thought. Its author, Aleksei Georgievich Kalashnikov (1893–1962), was a prominent scientist and statesman who served as the Minister of Education of the RSFSR from 1946 to 1948. In the 1920s, as a deputy director of the Research Institute of Scientific Pedagogy, he was deeply involved in theorizing "Marxist pedagogy". His "Essays," however, deviated from the emerging party line by emphasizing the biological and age-specific factors in child development, arguing against reducing education purely to a form of class struggle, and questioning the unlimited power of the state to reshape human behavior. These ideas were immediately condemned as a "right-wing deviation in pedagogy." In December 1929 and January 1930, the institute held collective condemnations of the book, with colleagues accusing Kalashnikov of "formalism," "eclecticism," and "revision of Marxism". The criticism swiftly escalated from academic to political, branded as "anti-Marxist gibberish" and "apologetics for bourgeois pedagogy". The materials from these condemnations were published in a separate volume titled "Against the Revision of Marxism in Pedagogy," effectively banning Kalashnikov's original work. Fearing worse consequences, Kalashnikov publicly recanted. The planned second volume never saw light. This rare publication is a stark artifact of the ideological purges that ended the relative intellectual freedom of the 1920s in Soviet science and education.