LECTURES AS AGITATION FORM OF POLITICAL-EDUCATIONAL WORK OF MUSEUMS OF TAMBOV PROVINCE IN 1920-1941s

The role of museums in political-educational and agitation-propaganda activity in Tambov province and Tambov region in 1920-1941s of XX century is considered. The state accomplished ideological education of adults and children, involved them in state and economic building, developed consciousness and activity, increased general cultural level of the country population. The soviet government was interested in increase of educational and cultural level of all the population, paying attention to the growing generation and understanding that without educated, cultural person it is impossible to build new state. Museums, in this period become a part of general state and party system. In mass work with population prevailed the out of museum, agitation forms - lectures, mobile exhibitions dated to political companies. Lectures as a form of museums’ activity played a great role in work with dissolution of the population illiteracy, antireligious propaganda, health-keeping education, the necessity of armed protection propaganda to reach the revolution, provided the scope increase among listeners. Besides the increase of general educational level, the population of the region got a little amount of legal, political knowledge, skills of participation in social work - to have the ability to perform in from of the auditory, answer the questions, to gain the point. But stepwise instead of thoughtful agitation, combined with concrete help, the methods of “pressure”, “urge” prevailed. The individual approach was not important, that lead to gradual transformation of museums in “cult factory” aimed at propaganda of socialism reach.

political-educational institution, ideological education of adults and children, illiteracy dissolution, atheistic education, health-keeping education