A Study Of Stalin's Thought On Marxist Theoretical Education

Stalin's thought on Marxist theoretical education, which is the system of theory of Stalin's education on content, status, function, principle, method, subject and object, is the thought of Stalin to educate the work people by Marxist scientific education theory. As an honest Marxist, Stalin attaches great importance to educate the masses of working people with Marxist principles. Stalin's thought on Marxist theoretical education is the development of the Marxist theoretical education.Stalin's thought on theoretical education, based on Marx Lenin theory as the guiding ideology, came into being in the Russian proletariat revolutionary era and developed in the great practice of the Soviet Socialist Construction. Education thoughts and philosophical method of Marx Lenin's theory as the theoretical foundation of Stalin's thought on theoretical education plays a decisive role in the formation and development of Stalin's thought on theoretical education. Lenin's criticism to the divisions of the Russian Social Democratic Party and Marx criticism to revisionism played the role of reform from the bottom in the formation of Stalin's thought on theoretical education.In education content of the theory, Stalin combined the concrete practice of the Russian proletarian revolution with socialist construction of the Soviet Union and formed the main content of his education theory. First, insisting on Marx Lenin's basic principle in the education of proletarian and the mass both in theory and practice. Second, insisting on the party's cadre education train and bring up qualified the commander and leader for the proletarian revolution and socialist construction. Third, insisting on the party's ethnic education to wake the nations in the proletariat revolution and realize the development of nationalities in the socialist construction. Fourth, adhering to the party's historical education to strengthen their faith in the Marx doctrine by writing Russian and Soviet history textbooks of history education and carrying out the party history education of the party members and cadres. Stalin made a conclusion of the essential requirements of Marx's theory in the status and the function of theory education. Stalin put forward the theory of ideological education according to the Russian proletarian revolution and socialist construction. Stalin's thought on theoretical education is the theory weapon for the proletariat liberation and the theoretical guidance of socialist construction, which cleared the importance of education theory and the specific task in the development of the society.Stalin's put forward the theory of education principle based on mastering the theory essence of Marx Lenin doctrine in the principles and methods of education theory. The principle is the combination of the theory and practice, which emphasizes the importance of theoretical guidance in the practice and importance of theory for the practice. At the same time, the theory of education principles should be applied to the concrete practice of the theory education to form the theory method of education. Meanwhile, the methodological guidance is applied to the specific educational practice, so as to ensure the smooth and effective theoretical education.Concerning the subject and object of theory education, Stalin reorganized the organizational structure and leadership system of theory education to achieve the scientific and standard effect in the theory education and construct three system of the education subject in Marx's theory. At the same time, Stalin's thought on theoretical education analyzed the object of theory education and its characteristics. Stalin's thought on theoretical education insisted on the dialectical unification of the subject and the object in theory education, emphasized theoretical education should adopt a top-down and bottom-up methods, and paid attention to grasp and use the subject object mutual transformation rules.Stalin's thought on theoretical education inherited and developed Lenin's theory of education thought. Stalin's thought on theoretical education played an important role in the socialist construction of the Soviet Union in practice in the Russian proletariat revolution especially in the socialist construction of the Soviet Union and promoted the development of socialist construction of Soviet Union. Meanwhile, Stalin's thought on theoretical education has some theoretical defects and mistakes. After Stalin's death, Marx's theory of education in the Soviet Union has entered a new stage. In this stage, although the Soviet Union has made some achievements in the theoretical education, it also made some mistakes and error in the theoretical education which resulted in the final collapse of the Soviet Union to some extend.Stalin's thought on theoretical education not only guide the Soviet Theoretical Education but also has a positive impact on other socialist countries including China. However, China developed its thought on theoretical education by overcoming the defects and errors of Stalin's thought on theoretical education. The thinking and exploration of Stalin's thought on theoretical education is worthy of learning by the socialist countries. Meanwhile, the theoretical defects and mistakes of Stalin's thought on theoretical education is worthy of reflection and correction.