How Russia Made 100 Million People Literate

What changes were made to improve the astonishingly low literacy rates in the USSR?

Ethan Friend
Dec 13, 2019 · 4 min read
Sputnik

It was vitally important that the Communists improved the literacy rates of the Soviet Union, and to do so they had to focus not only on the children but also the adults.

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