{{Short description|Type of educational institution in the Soviet Union}} thumb|right|A photograph of a rabfak. '''Rabfak''' (from {{langx|ru|рабфак}}, a syllabic abbreviation of Рабочий факультет, ''Rabochiy fakul′tet'', "workers' faculty") was a type of educational institution in the Soviet Union<ref>{{Cite book |last=Unfried |first=Berthold |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9f97AIvgINcC&pg=PA308 |title="Ich bekenne": katholische Beichte und sowjetische Selbstkritik |date=2006 |publisher=Campus-Verl |isbn=978-3-593-37869-5 |series=Studien zur historischen Sozialwissenschaft |location=Frankfurt/Main |p=308}}</ref> which prepared Soviet workers and peasants to enter institutions of higher education. Such institutions were present in every faculty and institute for higher learning and tended to contain a density of members of either the Komsomol or the VKP(B). The ''rabfaki'' were created by Mikhail Pokrovskii in March 1919 and were active until the 1940s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=David-Fox |first=Michael |title=Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1997 |pages=46}}</ref> They were intended for adults who had received little formal schooling and were intended as a fulfilment of the promises of the Revolution for upwards social mobility for workers and peasants.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Sheila |title=Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934 |date=1979 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=50-1}}</ref>
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== See also== * Remedial education
Category:Education in the Soviet Union
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