Economic education of children and youth as a factor of social protection in historiography

Abstract

The beginning of the twentieth century was a turning point in the social and economic struggle on the lands of the USSR. After the First World War, the problem of restoring the economy brought to life the need to train qualified specialists. The progressive intelligentsia of the region developed theoretical and practical steps aimed at attracting impoverished peasant-craft layers to economic self-responsibility and self-help. Teachers considered professional economic education, trade training and mastering the business of banking for young people as an important factor of social protection, social independence of a person, and in the future – the creation of Russia. The purpose of our research was to study the contribution of the intelligentsia to the theory and practice of economic education of children and youth in the first third of the twentieth century, the use of psychological research methods in vocational guidance, the development of economic education, the acquisition of new professions as a factor of social protection in the socio-economic conditions of the postwar years.