E Thomas Ewing
Biographic Data
| ID | 1130482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Thomas Ewing |
| GIVEN NAMES | E Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewing |
| SIGNATURE | EWING E T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4757-1623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction to Data in Social Context
What Came Next
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Karl D. Qualls. Stalin’s Niños
Stalin’s Niños explores the remarkable history of the refugee children who left Spain during the civil war of the late 1930s for the Soviet Union, where they were welcomed, celebrated, fed, and educated as evidence of international solidarity against fascism. As historian Karl Qualls illustrates in this thorough and meticulous study, while these children were immediately transformed into symbols of Soviet propaganda domestically and international…
Public Health Responses to Pandemics in 1918 and 2020
“Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of Covid-19”
For many us who have studied, researched, written, and taught about the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the current period of the global viral pandemic is eerily and unpleasantly familiar. Today, the rapid global spread of a virus has prompted policies calling for widespread closures, social distancing, constant handwashing, and public mask wearing in additional to other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). We have also seen pushback and resis…
“A Most Powerful Instrument for a Despot”
Maternity and Modernity
This article explores how Soviet political identities were shaped by maternal concerns and how mothers' practices were shaped by the professional obligations of teaching in the Stalinist 1930s. Exploring an occupation that became more female as it became more modern, a professional identity that denied or constrained female sexuality, a calling devoted to children that left little time for motherhood, and a social role that assigned the task of s…
If the Teacher were a Man’
This article explores questions about identity among Soviet men teachers, about the construction of masculinity in the Stalinist context and more broadly about the significance of power in structuring gender identities. By examining the personal experience, classroom practices and political perspectives of a man teacher in a ‘women's profession’, this article demonstrates how masculine identity involved the exercise of power even in the context o…
A precarious position of power
In September 1931, the Communist Party Central Committee, the highest political authority in the Soviet Union, declared that ‘single person rule’ (edinonachalie) should prevail in the administration of schools. The history of approximately 100,000 school directors in the 1930s was shaped by a rapid expansion in numbers as well as fundamental changes in the distribution of power in society. During this era of intense political repression, individu…
The Repudiation of Single-Sex Education
This article examines the 11-year Soviet experiment with boys’ schools as a way to cast new light on scholarly research and public debates about single-sex education. Drawing on archival and published materials by educators who described school conditions, identified problems, suggested reforms, and evaluated remedies, the author argues that separating boys from girls exacerbated the problems of coeducational schools while generating additional d…
Revolution and Pedagogy
Personal Acts with Public Meanings
During the first stage of the Stalin era, suicides by Soviet women teachers revealed the essential ambiguity of a self–destructive act, the uncertain identity of women as public activists, and the difficult position of teachers at a time of intense political conflict. Examining eight women teachers who killed themselves in the period 1928 to 1931, this study argues that this assertion of self–control through self–destruction was also a surrender …
Restoring Teachers to Their Rights
In early 1937, one-third of sixth graders in a school near Leningrad were not passing their Russian-language course. Their teacher, Tomsinskaia, told the school director that the failures were due to circumstances beyond her control: children had received inadequate preparation in previous grades, textbooks were in short supply, and pupils had “weak reading habits.” Other teachers in the Krasnosel'skii district offered similar justifications for …
Forward Soviet! History and Non-Fiction Film in the USSR
Stalinism at Work
Restoring Teachers to Their Rights
In early 1937, one-third of sixth graders in a school near Leningrad were not passing their Russian-language course. Their teacher, Tomsinskaia, told the school director that the failures were due to circumstances beyond her control: children had received inadequate preparation in previous grades, textbooks were in short supply, and pupils had “weak reading habits.” Other teachers in the Krasnosel'skii district offered similar justifications for …
The Repudiation of Single-Sex Education
This article examines the 11-year Soviet experiment with boys’ schools as a way to cast new light on scholarly research and public debates about single-sex education. Drawing on archival and published materials by educators who described school conditions, identified problems, suggested reforms, and evaluated remedies, the author argues that separating boys from girls exacerbated the problems of coeducational schools while generating additional d…
Public Health Responses to Pandemics in 1918 and 2020
A precarious position of power
In September 1931, the Communist Party Central Committee, the highest political authority in the Soviet Union, declared that ‘single person rule’ (edinonachalie) should prevail in the administration of schools. The history of approximately 100,000 school directors in the 1930s was shaped by a rapid expansion in numbers as well as fundamental changes in the distribution of power in society. During this era of intense political repression, individu…
Personal Acts with Public Meanings
During the first stage of the Stalin era, suicides by Soviet women teachers revealed the essential ambiguity of a self–destructive act, the uncertain identity of women as public activists, and the difficult position of teachers at a time of intense political conflict. Examining eight women teachers who killed themselves in the period 1928 to 1931, this study argues that this assertion of self–control through self–destruction was also a surrender …
Stalinism at Work
Stalinism at Work
Forward Soviet! History and Non-Fiction Film in the USSR
Restoring Teachers to Their Rights
In early 1937, one-third of sixth graders in a school near Leningrad were not passing their Russian-language course. Their teacher, Tomsinskaia, told the school director that the failures were due to circumstances beyond her control: children had received inadequate preparation in previous grades, textbooks were in short supply, and pupils had “weak reading habits.” Other teachers in the Krasnosel'skii district offered similar justifications for …
Personal Acts with Public Meanings
During the first stage of the Stalin era, suicides by Soviet women teachers revealed the essential ambiguity of a self–destructive act, the uncertain identity of women as public activists, and the difficult position of teachers at a time of intense political conflict. Examining eight women teachers who killed themselves in the period 1928 to 1931, this study argues that this assertion of self–control through self–destruction was also a surrender …
Revolution and Pedagogy
The Repudiation of Single-Sex Education
This article examines the 11-year Soviet experiment with boys’ schools as a way to cast new light on scholarly research and public debates about single-sex education. Drawing on archival and published materials by educators who described school conditions, identified problems, suggested reforms, and evaluated remedies, the author argues that separating boys from girls exacerbated the problems of coeducational schools while generating additional d…
If the Teacher were a Man’
This article explores questions about identity among Soviet men teachers, about the construction of masculinity in the Stalinist context and more broadly about the significance of power in structuring gender identities. By examining the personal experience, classroom practices and political perspectives of a man teacher in a ‘women's profession’, this article demonstrates how masculine identity involved the exercise of power even in the context o…
A precarious position of power
In September 1931, the Communist Party Central Committee, the highest political authority in the Soviet Union, declared that ‘single person rule’ (edinonachalie) should prevail in the administration of schools. The history of approximately 100,000 school directors in the 1930s was shaped by a rapid expansion in numbers as well as fundamental changes in the distribution of power in society. During this era of intense political repression, individu…
Maternity and Modernity
This article explores how Soviet political identities were shaped by maternal concerns and how mothers' practices were shaped by the professional obligations of teaching in the Stalinist 1930s. Exploring an occupation that became more female as it became more modern, a professional identity that denied or constrained female sexuality, a calling devoted to children that left little time for motherhood, and a social role that assigned the task of s…
“A Most Powerful Instrument for a Despot”
“Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of Covid-19”
For many us who have studied, researched, written, and taught about the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the current period of the global viral pandemic is eerily and unpleasantly familiar. Today, the rapid global spread of a virus has prompted policies calling for widespread closures, social distancing, constant handwashing, and public mask wearing in additional to other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). We have also seen pushback and resis…
Public Health Responses to Pandemics in 1918 and 2020
What Came Next
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Karl D. Qualls. Stalin’s Niños
Stalin’s Niños explores the remarkable history of the refugee children who left Spain during the civil war of the late 1930s for the Soviet Union, where they were welcomed, celebrated, fed, and educated as evidence of international solidarity against fascism. As historian Karl Qualls illustrates in this thorough and meticulous study, while these children were immediately transformed into symbols of Soviet propaganda domestically and international…
Introduction to Data in Social Context
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)