SOVIET AWARENESS-BUILDING WORK IN KURSK PROVINCE IN 1921-1926: THE PECULIARITIES AND FIRST RESULTS

One of the most specific forms of campaign against illiteracy not directly connected with the techniques which are characteristic of the time is studied. The stages, the organization and means of the Soviet campaign against illiteracy held in 1921-1926 are analyzed. A comparison of educational and ideological aspects of this campaign allows to see how they were related and how they contributed to the formation of new cultural practices. The legal development of Soviet education on the territory of Kursk province are outlined. In the years of socialist construction the Council of People’s Commissars adopted a decree “About liquidation of illiteracy among the population of RSFSR”. The main objective was to investigate how the literacy a large proportion of the working population of the country, which were endowed with the right to vote. The newly formed state needed educated people in order to create a new management structure. Also the need in qualified personnel for production, for production development in industrial enterprises is created, which was impossible without education. The basic premises of Soviet cultural construction are shown, the principal tasks of the proletariat in the field of mastering science are established, issues of cultural and political education and raising the cultural level of the masses are addressed. The particularly important role in improving the education system and attracting the masses is discussed that contributed to the management of government, involvement in political life of the country, solving major social issues in the life of the village.

Kursk province, fight against illiteracy, public education, liquidators of illiteracy, teachers