The Cognitive Abilities of the Russian Peasantry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

• Boris N. Mironov ^[1]
  1. [1] St. Petersburg State University
• Localización: Russian History, ISSN 0094-288X, Vol. 46, Nº. 2-3, 2019, págs. 103-124
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Russia of 1917, two-thirds of the male and female peasants age 10 and older had not had systematic schooling and were illiterate; the rest were able to read and do basic arithmetic. Only 0.1% of peasants studied in secondary or higher educational institutions. As a result, 99.9% of all peasants had a particular mode of thinking - concrete, situational, and directly related to sensations and actions. Mastery of the world in practical terms, through the window of the senses, left a deep imprint on the nature and content of peasants’ knowledge, on how they conceptualized the social and physical world, and on how they behaved.