Between Society and Government: the Soviet School in the USSR [Rec. on the book: Lavrut O. «Soviet school in the Second Half of the 20th Century: the Dimension of Ukraine». Slovyansk: Printing yard, 2020]

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze the monograph of Olga Alexandrovna Lavrut, which is devoted to the characteristics of the school's mission in the Ukrainian SSR in the late 1940s–1980s. The paper clarifies the socio-economic conditions of institutions in the USSR; organization of the educational process, content of education; the personnel structure of teachers, dynamics and ways of its formation are analyzed. The author described the working conditions of teachers, specific features of everyday life of teachers; correlated the declarative and the real in the process of realization of the educational and social mission of the teacher. The place of school in the life of teachers, students and their parents is determined in the work; the specifics of school in Ukraine in comparison with the rest of the USSR in the second half of the XX century are investigated.