Realistic Demands and Educational Response: A Study Focusing on Education in the Central Soviet Area From 1933 to 1934

From 1933 to 1934, with the expansion of the war between the Chinese Soviet Republic and the Nanking National Government, the resources of human and material became more and more insufficient in the Central Soviet Area. Furthermore, pandemics spreading the area every year accelerated the insufficiency. In order to satisfy the realistic demands on army provisions and funding, sources of the Red Army and labor force, prevent pandemics, the Soviet Governments launched mobilizations of wartime economy, expanding the Red Army, laboring and precautionary pandemics. The contents related to the above-mentioned mobilizations made up a large proportion in the textbooks used in the Central Soviet Area. Thus, students became the objects and practitioners of these mobilizations. Furthermore, they were the subjects mobilizing other people in the area. The realistic demands in the Central Soviet Area deeply influenced on the contents and practice of education.