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Immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, conservatives suspected communists were attempting to take control of the schools so that they could subvert the minds of children. Often such charges were brought by conservatives distraught over the new progressive curriculum and seeking to tar it with the brush of communism. In 1928, for example, the DAR accused the progressive National Education Association (NEA) of being "sympathetic with communist ideals" and denounced it in a pamphlet. The frequency of such charges increased during the Depression, especially after teachers organized to oppose sweeping cutbacks in educational financing and other teachers adopted educational philosophies such as social reconstructionism that were sympathetic to left-wing causes.
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