Education

Revolutionaries and the Printed Word

Edited from: “‘The Caucasus is in the Hands of Revolutionaries’: Circulation, Connections, and the Caucasian Armenians”
by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach

Keywords: Marx, Das Capital, Russian, literacy, Ottoman, Caucasus, Iran, oil fields, Baku, hayduk, literacy, ARF, revolution

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A Brief Characterization of the Azerbaijani Intelligentsia

Edited from: “The Move South: the Emergence of Baku as a Socio-Cultural and Educational Center of the Late-Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century Azerbaijani Turkish Intelligentsia”
by Aimee Dobbs, Indiana University

Keywords: Azerbaijani Turkish intelligentsia, ulema, indigenous elite

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Facilitators of Educational and Socio-Conceptual Change in Baku During the Modern Age

Edited from: “The Move South: the Emergence of Baku as a Socio-Cultural and Educational Center of the Late-Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century Azerbaijani Turkish Intelligentsia”
by Aimee Dobbs, Indiana University

Keywords: Urban Reform, Duma, voting enfranchisement, three-tier system, Shi’a məclis, education

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Modern Schools in Baku

Edited from: “The Move South: the Emergence of Baku as a Socio-Cultural and Educational Center of the Late-Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century Azerbaijani Turkish Intelligentsia”
by Aimee Dobbs, Indiana University

Keywords: Baku, Modern school, modernization campaign, night schools, Russification, Kaspii

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Role of Women in the Development of Literacy Programs

Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus”
by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan

Keywords: literacy, reading rooms, women, Tbilisi, Baku

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Literacy as an Element of Sovietization

Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus”
by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan

Keywords: literacy, print socialism, TSFSR, Soviet

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Pathways to Literacy

Edited from: “Mountains of Letters: Tracing Literacy Across the Early Soviet South Caucasus”
by Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan

Keywords: Baku, Tbilisi, liktpunkt, TSFSR, reading, room, literacy, Armenia

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