M. A. Iasilli

M.A. Iasilli, Ph.D. is a political scientist and historian, who has conducted research centered on Nadezhda Krupskaya and the genesis of Soviet national community. His investigations delve into the intricate relationship between the 'woman question' and the 'national question,' with a particular emphasis on the role of education during the formative period of revolutionary Russia, spanning the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Iasilli's analysis demonstrates how Krupskaya's contributions to educational theory and practice were instrumental in redefining civic purpose and fostering social cohesion between the proletariat and the peasantry. Furthermore, he posits that the evolving socio-cultural landscape of gender norms provided avenues for Russian women, notably Krupskaya, to exert significant influence on national development through the shaping of cultural identity and the pedagogical formation of educational policies. Krupskaya, in this context, emerges as a pivotal figure in the bureaucratization of the Soviet state, achieved through Bolshevik reinterpretation of populist ideologies of the Narodniks and the establishment of novel educational programs.