INITIAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF WORKERS' AND PEASANTS' MILITIA OFFICERS OF THE RSFSR PROVINCES IN THE 1920S (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE FAR EASTERN REGION)

The education system of the police officers of the Far East evolved together with the all-Union state educational system. Its development was significantly influenced by the level of education of the population, as well as political and ideological factors. Far Eastern departmental schools and courses until the end of the 1920s were focused on the elimination of general and professional illiteracy and low literacy of students, i.e., they were actually an initial vocational school. Purpose: to study the specifics of initial vocational education of police officers of the Russian Far East in the 1920s. Materials and methods. The main research method is historical and descriptive. The source base of the article was the materials of central and regional archives containing both normative legal documentation and office work documents. The corpus of secondary sources mainly reveals the state of the initial vocational education of police officers in the central part of the RSFSR during the period under study, which is due to the lack of research on the topic in the regional, Far Eastern, material. Results. The study of the historical experience of the formation and development of professional education of police officers in the Russian Far East in the 1920s allows us to substantiate its significance for the modern educational space and highlight the directions of its use in the future. With the establishment of the republican form of government in Russia, the transformation of the content of legal norms began, as well as the restructuring of the system of professional education of law enforcement officers that had developed in the Russian Empire. It was transformed in line with the gradually forming Soviet legal field, was built in accordance with the national, intradepartmental, scientific, pedagogical and educational trends developing in the country, but in the Far East it had its own unique features. The features were associated with the protracted period of the civil war, the low level of education among the population, the high level of crime, the weak commitment of society to revolutionary ideas. All this determined the protracted nature of the inclusion of Far Eastern educational institutions of initial vocational training of police officers in the all-Union system.