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keywords:
World War II Hitler pedagogy Stalin Khruschev Gorbachev
Yeltsin The Great Purge Turkish Communist Party USA USSR.
synthesis:
Turkish origins parents escaped from Turkey father was one of the
founders of the Turkish Communist Party - at 17 departs willingly to
the Ucrainian Third Front in World War II reads newspapers to
soldiers telegraphist for coded messages at 17 she gets wounded in war at 19
she enlists herself in the Party defeat of Hitler - father is a
publisher for the
New World mother is a Math teacher University at Moscow
degree in Philosophy specializes in Pedagogy Gymnastics champion
aviation pilot - luckily escapes arrest during the repression
changes mother's Turkish passport- iconsiderations on the competition
USSR/USA suspicion climate instilled by Stalin Considerations on
the relationhips between Marxism and the communism built in the USSR
recollections of the popular climate at the death and funeral of
Stalin: personal recollections of that day cult of personality -
Khruchev denounces Stalin in the 20th Congress end of the communist
ideal Gorbachev referendum on the end of the USSR Yeltsin
wants to get rid of Gorbachev difficult situation in Russia today:
costly schooling, no social protection and nostalgia of the Soviet
past. Personal memories: happy marriage, journalist husband, studies
of her children has published books on Comparative Pedagogy. Photos
- newpaper articles.
subject
biography:
Born at Baku, in Azerbaijan, in 1924, daughter of parents who
escaped from Turkey. The father, Ismail, is one of the founders of the
Turkish Communist Party, but when Ataturk gains power, he is expelled
from the country. He enters the Comintern and becomes a secretary for
the Azerbaijan party. Olga finishes school in 1941 at 17 years of age.
As World War II begins, she volunters to join the army. Olga leaves
and spends four years as a telegraphist and as a reader of newspaper
for the soldiers. At the end of the war, she moves to Moscow and
studies Pedagogy. Her internationalist passion is still alive and, with
difficulty, for health reasons, she is busy with the publishing of a
book on the comparison of educational systems around the world.
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