We examine in this paper the influence of pedagogical activism in the early days of soviet education, from 1918 to the late 1920s. The study started from the assumption that in this period the soviet pedagogy blended that influence with marxist principles of education and work. Regarding the main sources we have relied on speeches and articles on three important figures of the revolution and education in the period: Anatoli Lounatcharski, Nadezja Konstantinovna Krupskaya and Vladimir Ilitch Lênin. We also used an untapped text by John Dewey on his visit to Soviet Russia in 1928. The study concluded that the presence of activism teaching was typical of the period of political effervescence of the revolution, coinciding with the campaign for literacy and early construction of the national system of public schools and began to decline in the 1930s with the consolidation of the revolution.
soviet education; educational activism; education and work