DEVELOPMENT OF STATE, PUBLIC AND SCHOOL LOCAL COUNTRY STUDIES AT THE INITIAL STAGE OF THE FORMATION OF THE SOVIET STATE (1917 – 1929)

Abstract

The task of the article is a systematic description of the approach to the development of state and public local studies and to identify the role of local country studies in educational processes and extracurricular work at schools in the soviet period following the revolution of 1917 up to the end of the twenties of the XX century. The relevance of the topic of the study is determined, on the one hand, by the importance of local studies education for the formation of knowledge and bringing up schoolchildren, on the other hand, by the insufficient coverage of local studies as an element of school education in the national school from a historical perspective. Local country studies unite the joint efforts of the state, schools, professionals and amateurs. Social and political factors have a decisive influence on the development of local country studies in the country. The author shows that in the designated period, which was later called the “golden decade” of national local country studies, quantitative and qualitative changes were made in state, public and school local lore studies. It has been revealed that local studies carry a unifying patriotic ideology, and in the period of the formation of the new state allow to preserve and increase the socio-cultural resources of the country. The presented material clearly shows that the all-union experience of introducing local lore studies into school practices can find its niche in the education and upbringing system in the modern school of Russia.