ABSTRACT
This paper aims to discuss the process of building, validating and circulating Anton Makarenko’s pedagogy in the context of post-revolution Russia. Through the examination of the rhetoric and the intellectual sociabilities constructed and mobilized by Makarenko in the production and dissemination of his work Road to Life, it is possible to verify that the author endeavored to construct the idea of an uninterested connection with Maxim Gorky - central figure in the promotion of his work - and that Makarenko’s pedagogy had been developed on the margins of the official. Paradoxically, Road to Life is linked to the revolutionary Soviet project to the same extent that it sought to meet the requirements of a Soviet literature in the molds proposed by Gorky himself.
Keywords:
history of intellectuals; history of education; memorial narratives; history of the Soviet Union