Destruction of Local Knowledge Systems

in the campaign “The Valuev Circular: Ban on the Language and Schools (1862–1869)”

The liquidation of education in the native language: in 1859–1862 the intelligentsia and students founded 111 Sunday schools in Ukraine to teach adults literacy, with instruction conducted in Ukrainian; in 1862 the authorities closed these schools "for the alleged presence of revolutionary propaganda"[1].

ID: C0046.T0044
Start: January 1862
End: December 1869
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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