Soviet poster : To have more you need to know more.

In the history of Soviet science in the 1920s-1930s, is an important frontier. At this time, domestic historiography underwent radical changes that for a long time determined the further path of its development. In the years immediately preceding the reform in the field of historical education and science, that is, at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, the leadership of the People's Commissariat of Education, based on the cadres of Marxist historians formed in the post-revolutionary years, summed up the results of the development of transitional science.
By the end of the 1920's. Marxist ideology has become dominant in the national historical science and the life of society.
In the late 1920's - early 1930's. In the USSR, the national economy that was destroyed during the First World War, the revolution, civil war and intervention has been strengthened, and the process of industrialization and collectivization has begun. During the years of Soviet power, the general educational level of the country's population has significantly increased. These changes inevitably caused new needs of society in the social sciences.
The theory and practice of the new school in Soviet Russia began to be built on the principles of democracy. The main program documents note that it is not enough to destroy class privileges in order to achieve the desired progress. The main thing is to reconstruct the whole education system "in the spirit of the truly national school", so that it corresponds to the needs of the people. Work must become the meaning and purpose of learning. To teach first of all what is most needed in life.