Theory in teaching: pros and cons (on the history of higher technical education in the Far East in the 1920-1950s)
The article describes the changes characteristic of the lecture method in teaching future engineers in the Russian Far East. It shows how lectures had been influenced by the brigade-laboratory method in the 1920s and by the Stakhanovite movement in the 1930s. The article also includes authorities' demands towards lectures and lecturers, some facts about the balance between general science disciplines and special subjects, special features of skillful lecturers. The regional aspects of teaching are analysed through the general Russian tendencies. The article contains new facts of the history of higher technical education in Russia obtained from central and regional archives as well as from published sources of that time.