A Book for Parents

1954, a title from the Russian educator A S Makarenko

Author

Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, translated from the Russian by Robert Dalgish

Publisher

Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954

Printing Details

First thus. Hardback, bound in blue cloth boards with gilt and printed titling to spine and upper board. 20 × 13cm, 410pp.

First published in Russia, this book by Makarenko, one of Russia's great educators, is written as fiction and forms a guide for parents to bring up their children in the way he advocates the "discipline of combating and surmounting difficulties", it emphasizes the importance of the family as a collective. It was written in collaboration with his wife, Galina Salko.