A. S. Makarenko Reference Archive


The Road to Life
(An Epic of Education)
Volume 1


Source: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow 1955, Second Edition
Illustrations: selected from photographs taken by Makarenko at the Maxim Gorky Colony
Translation: Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov
Online Version: A. S. Makarenko Reference Archive (marxists.org) 2002


 

Contents

1. A CONVERSATION WITH THE CHIEF OF THE GUBERNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
2. THE INGLORIOUS BEGINNINGS OF THE GORKY COLONY
3. A DESCRIPTION OF OUR PRIMARY NEEDS
4. OPERATIONS ON THE HOME FRONT
5. MATTERS OF STATE IMPORTANCE
6. THE CAPTURE OF THE IRON TANK
7. "EVERYBODY'S GOOD FOR SOMETHING!"
8. CHARACHTER AND CULTURE
9. "THE AGE OF CHIVALRY IS NOT DEAD IN THE UKRAINE."
10. "HEROES OF SOCIAL EDUCATION."
11. THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE SEED-DRILL
12. BRATCHENK0 AND THE DISTRICT COMMISAR FOR SUPPLIES
13. OSADCHY
14. INKPOTS AS GOOD-WILL PROMOTERS
15. "OURS IS A BEAUTY!"
16. GABER SOUP
17. SHARIN ON THE WARPATH
18. A LINK-UP WITH THE VILLAGE
19. A GAME OF FORFEITS
20. A HORSE FOR A HARVESTER
21. HORRID OLD MEN
22. AMPUTATION
23. SELECTED SEED
24. SEMYON'S WAY OF SORROWS
25. REGIMENTAL PEDAGOGICS
26. THE MONSTERS OF THE NEW COLONY
27. THE STORMING OF THE KOMOSOL
28. THE CEREMONIAL MARCH BEGINS