{"id":98,"date":"2020-07-06T19:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/soviet\/?post_type=book&#038;p=98"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:50:49","slug":"what-are-we-building-a-workbook-with-pictures","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/soviet\/book\/what-are-we-building-a-workbook-with-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Are Building: A Workbook with Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u0427\u0442\u043e \u043c\u044b \u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0438\u043c (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What We Are Building<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), written by Leonid Savyalev, was published by \u0433\u043e\u0441\u0443\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0438\u0437\u0434\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State Publishing House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in 1930. This workbook for Soviet schoolchildren celebrates the impact of Joseph Stalin\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyhit.com\/first-five-year-plan-begins\/\">Five Year Plan<\/a> (1928-1932), which pushed for rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. Its primary goal is to propagandize the building of a new Soviet economy and way of life. To that end, readers are tested on their knowledge of\u2014and contributions to<b>\u2014<\/b>such efforts. For example, they must fill in responses to prompts such as \u201cWhat electricity is used for at home and in school\u201d (p. 10), \u201cWhat machines I have seen\u201d (p.13), and \u201cHow I help my comrades who are struggling in school\u201d (p. 19).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hannah Slabodkin, Jess Lawlor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0427\u0442\u043e \u043c\u044b \u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0438\u043c (What We Are Building), written by Leonid Savyalev, was published by \u0433\u043e\u0441\u0443\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0438\u0437\u0434\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e (State Publishing House) in 1930. This workbook for Soviet schoolchildren celebrates the impact of Joseph Stalin\u2019s first Five Year Plan (1928-1932), which pushed for rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. Its primary goal is to propagandize the building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"publisher":[10],"bookauthor":[105],"artist":[68],"class_list":["post-98","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","publisher-gosudarstvennoe-izdatelstvo","bookauthor-savelev-l-leonid","artist-tambi-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/soviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/soviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/soviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/soviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/soviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/soviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/soviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publisher?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"bookauthor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/soviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bookauthor?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/soviet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}