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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31 1994 THEHERALD 9A WORLD NEWS nnHBio ERFORMANCE Russian textbooks purged of propaganda towage A beeper that has no boundaries Local plus nationwide roaming service from $21 or lease it from $24 I WS4 1 connect tee Certain restnrtion ippty Actual mope's may vary Trace ins welcome Pnce eci Kies WXl nocese Wl pot requiem paper purchase C1994DMC Allnyhis reserved Miami 858-2687 -Ft Lauderdale 4S2-6265 Miami 227-6482 Hollywood 458-5673 Miami 895-8055 All other areas 800-683-7243 Coral Spnngs 341-8499 Corntnuatattom for ever fh Hal (S5EraSX2E3 ST GrjUnJ Give' Awayt RegfsftrjteVnlSJAOd worth? And accessoriti 'ED LiWilTIfl'ji CeHCooklnfcJoi tbrprkdtot one adult aijdchilcJrtn underJAf RE FAMILYWGWfriilaftBSvpt? iStpU Children no longer are taught to revere Vladimir Lenin 4y By DAVE CARPENTER Associated Press MOSCOW Three years after started disappearing from the classroom Russian children are rid of textbooks that toe the Communist Party line The school year starts Thursday for the first generation of students in decades to get an education without Soviet propaganda The heavy-handed Soviet version of history a blind paean to the glories of communism was discarded soon after the Soviet demise in 1991 But in many cases teachers have been forced to use old books lecture from notes or otherwise improvise while awaiting the next generation of textbooks The last batch of those new books will be delivered by the erid of September to the 67000 schools a spokeswoman for the Russian Education Ministry said Friday a relief for educators such as Tatiana Antonova who began teaching at public school No 1230 during the Khrushchev era Over the years she winced when teaching the works of Leonid Brezhnev was clear to everyone that Brezhnev was not a man of she recalled with a smile are not that The new books are a bright spot in an educational system that is badly strapped for cash 1 St Peters burg teachers met for a session and concluded that the situation was according to the newspaper Nezavisi-maya Gazeta Schools are understaffed teachers are less qualified than ever and average pay of about $46 a month less than half the average wage makes it hard to attract young teachers indisputable prestige of a teacher has said Tatiana Lanna vice principal of school N6 1289 in Moscow the teacher even admits his or her mistakes which was next to impossible under Soviet More than 500 private schools have sprung up nationwide as a result of the funding crisis boasting classes in everything from Latin to etiquette But the high tuition relegates all but the elite to public schools Still the government emphasizes the freedom of choice brought by post-Soviet educational reforms Children no longer are taught to revere Vladimir Lenin and the new History of the Motherland that now replaces History of the USSR acknowledges the cruelties of his dictatorship But the Bolshevik stdm visage is still visible A picture of a Lenin statue is featured prominently in a display of Moscow scenes in the history classroom at school No 1 230 and the government allows teachers to use any educational materials even works if their pupils let them get away with it recently listened to the confessions of a sobbing old said Margarita Leontyeva head of the secondary education department in the Education Ministry was called a Communist by her pupils and literally driven from Some 1994 textbooks address for the first time the killing of Czar Nicholas II and the expulsion of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other dissidents books called the Decembrist uprising by rebellious aristocrats and army 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