Forms of organizing students' historical and local history activities in the university system from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s (based on the material of the Voroshilovgrad region of the Ukrainian SSR)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the implementation of the historical and local history activities of Soviet students in the 1930-1950s. Using the example of higher educational institutions of the Voroshilovgrad region of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the author identifies and characterizes the forms of historical and local history work of student youth. Based on the analysis of documentary sources, the article describes the process of organizing such types of classroom and extracurricular work as archaeological research, research work in the system of scientific student societies, historical and local history work as part of industrial pedagogical practice at school and summer pioneer camps, ethnographic practice students of philological faculties, the implementation of theses on local history topics. The author highlights the problem of using the elements of students' work in local history in the course of socially useful activities, and indicates the reasons for the emergence of new forms of local history activities in the post-war period. The author's position is based on the assertion that the revival of some forms of organization of students' historical and local history activities used in Soviet pedagogical practice will make it possible to ensure the formation of a number of important universal competencies of graduates of modern universities.