INSTITUTES OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE RSFSR: FORMATION AND REORGANISATION
Annotation
The article examines the history of the institutes of public education (INO), the first attempt in Soviet Russia to create a single type of higher pedagogical institution. Drawing on normative documents of the People’s Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR and regional studies, the authors trace the concept of the 1919 reform, the formation of the network of institutes in Central Russia, the Volga region, Siberia and the Far Eastern Republic, and the organisation of teaching and the conditions of their work. It is shown that the abandonment of the INO by the Commissariat in 1921 did not mean...