Деятельность Читинского государственного педагогического института в конце 1940-х – начале 1950-х годов в контексте образовательной политики СССР в сфере высшего образования

Abstract

The study aims to present the specifics of the development of higher pedagogical education in Transbaikalia during the late 1940s and the early 1950s in the context of the Soviet higher education policy. The paper analyzes the main areas of work of the Chita State Pedagogical Institute against the background of the regulatory framework in force in the country at that time and specifies the difficulties that the university had to face in the post-war years. The scientific novelty lies in determining the main directions of the Soviet educational policy in the late 1940s and the early 1950s and the ways of its implementation in the higher education system as exemplified by the Chita State Pedagogical Institute by using the sources from the collections of the State Archive of the Trans-Baikal Territory introduced into scientific use and comparing them with the regulatory framework in the field of higher education existing at that time. As a result of the study, the main aspects of the development of higher pedagogical education in the Chita region during the post-war years have been highlighted, its specifics have been determined.