Problems of development of the system of training and retraining of agitation and propaganda personnel in the Far East of the USSR in the 1930s
https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2022-27-1-232-245
Abstract
An important role in the implementation of measures of political and ideological orientation was played by the related agitation and propaganda personnel. The quality of work on the ideological involvement of the population in certain party-political principles directly depended on their professional training. Despite the large number of scientific studies on the subject, they have virtually no detailed critical analysis of the state and development of the system of training and retraining of agitation and propaganda personnel in the Far East of the USSR in the 1930s. On this basis, the aim of this work was to analyze the archival materials devoted to the development of the training of agitation and propaganda personnel, its forms, approaches, achievements and problems that influenced the political development in the Far East region in the 1930s. Using the method of system analysis allowed us to study the process of training and retraining of agitation and propaganda personnel as an element of the overall system of party political education in the 1930s. As a result of the study it was substantiated that many problems of this system development were due to its isolation from the basic party political training centers and dictated the specific features of its functioning. They were associated with limited material and personnel resources, its substitution by economic activities, as well as the lack of control on the part of local party leaders. It is proved that this in turn led to underestimation of the importance of party-political training of agitation and propaganda personnel on the part of workers and employees, their weak educational outreach and low attendance of training events. Despite the actions of the central and local party-political leadership to strengthen the organizational, control and other measures aimed at the development of training and retraining of propaganda and propaganda personnel, the situation remained complex and ambiguous.
About the Author
A. A. Isaev
Far Eastern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksandr A. Isaev, Candidate of History, Associate Professor of History and Archaeology Department of School of Arts and Humanities
8 Sukhanova St., Vladivostok 690950
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Isaev A.A. Problems of development of the system of training and retraining of agitation and propaganda personnel in the Far East of the USSR in the 1930s. Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities. 2022;22(1):232-245. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2022-27-1-232-245
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