Formation and development of schooling in the Crimean ASSR (1920s)

Abstract. The article considers the process of formation and development of schooling in the Crimean ASSR in 1920s. Documents from the funds of the State Archive of the Republic of Crimea, such as R-1551, R-1622, R-3912 and materials from the periodical press of the 1920s, introduced for the first time into scientific circulation have been used. The attention of readers is drawn to the creation of Naroobraz, analyzes policies in the field of school education, as well as the features of public education of individual national minorities of the Crimean Peninsula. Research in this area will help to analyze state policy in the field of education in the Crimean ASSR, including new methodological approaches and programs, financing and the relationship between the authorities and the pedagogical intelligentsia.

The problem: the author focuses on the formation of the public education system of the Crimean ASSR, in particular, on such aspects as the elimination of illiteracy, overcoming the consequences of famine, creating a new school network, the formation of the Soviet pedagogical intelligentsia, as well as national policy in the field of public education.

The goal of the research is to study and analyze the process of formation and development of the school education system in the Crimean ASSR in the 1920s.

The research methods used are source study, comparative historical, historical-genetic and retrospective methods.

Judging by the stated goal, the author implements the following tasks in the article:

- to study the historiography and source base of the researched topic;

- to analyze the transformations of the new education system of the Bolsheviks of the Crimean ASSR in comparison with the pre-revolutionary one;

 - to determine the role and significance of Naroobraz in the development of the school system;

 - to highlight the main directions of the national policy in the field of education.

Key conclusions. During the research, previously unpublished documents on the formation and development of the school education system of the Crimean ASSR have been identified, historiography has been analyzed, transformation of methodological approaches in school education in comparison with the pre-revolutionary period has been studied, the role of Naroobraz in the formation of the school network has been determined, and the features of school education in the context of the national policy of the Bolsheviks in the Crimean ASSR have been identified.

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