THE EVOLUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE 1920S OF THE XX CENTURY IN RUSSIA

In the period of global social transformations, it is important to see their perspective, the outcome to which these changes lead. To look into this issue, it is better to turn to history, building a definite retrospective in this way of those social processes that happened to society at the given moment, which will help to understand the general meaning of the development of education in society. To this end, using the methodology of the evolution of higher education, we turn to the period of the history of Russia from 1917 to 1927 - the period of the Revolution, the Civil War, the concomitant period of War Communism, and the subsequent period of the New Economic Policy (NEP). It is this period that can be characterized as the period of social anomie in Russian society, when the old system of education was demolished, and a new, Soviet, system was created to replace it. As a result of such a historical retrospective, it was shown that the utopian aspirations of the Soviet leaders led to destructive consequences, but society, in spite of these social cataclysms, still demonstrated the ability to live in harmony and return to a universal and educational system.