Political Education within the Soviet System of Extra-Curriculum Activities in the 1920s - at the Beginning of the 1930s (by the Materials of the Lower Volga Region)
The article examines the problems of influence of social-science disciplines on the formation of the student youth’s political ideals. The Soviet pupils’ political education in the 1920-1930s was closely associated with children’s everyday participation in revolutionary development. The authors describe forms and types of extracurricular activities of the Lower Volga region schoolchildren. The study covers issues of organizing different forms of club work. Special role in political education of that time belonged to revolutionary holidays whose influence on schoolchildren’s consciousness is emphasized.