One user wrote:

- Was the alphabet printed abroad? I always thought that everything was fine with the printing industry in the USSR ... Well done Germans - they were in time everywhere. And they tried for themselves, and they helped us

I also puzzled - why is there a different order of letters in the alphabet and primer?))

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It still remains a mystery to me where this alphabet was used - at school or kindergarten? I remember my blue primer, they gave it to us right away in the first grade, I even have my photo with him at my desk. I also remember the alphabet, but when did we study it? Both books teach reading in the same way, why was it necessary to duplicate?

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I think that this ABC was intended for children to study with their parents or in kindergarten.
I looked at the Primer now - it is more complicated: there are already vowels / consonants, hard / soft sounds, letters, charades, rebuses, and in general it was approved by the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, unlike the ABC.
And this ABC, by the way, contains, in addition to the letter section, also materials for teaching counting, as well as those dedicated to children's creativity.

For those who want to "look through" the ABC online -

Primer, 1987

Almost all Soviet children learned from this primer.

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Primer 1970.

First-graders of the 70s were less fortunate - the cover of the "Primer" of the 1970 model was simpler and more concise. According to him, I studied in the first grade in 1984.

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8. Printed in the GDR. But why? And "Who is it? What is it?" in two volumes, too, once printed in the GDR.

My husband and I had such a two-part textbook in childhood, according to which we were taught the Russian language.
Designed for preparatory and first grades of national schools, as well as for foreigners starting to learn Russian.

Russian language in pictures.

Barannikov I.V., Varkovitskaya L.A. Old edition of the textbook. 1971

I had one. The second part was not found.

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Both my husband and I had these editions. They loved to flip through them in childhood - look at the pictures and try to read the words.

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14. Perfect family dinner. Again grandmother fries, mother cooks soup.

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13. A small cake turned out to be a sign - this is "Fairy Tale"!

14. To this day, we remember this when we communicate on the Internet - on forums, in chats: some go to bed, while others are still at work.

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I have always loved illustrations in this style. Emotional. Animals are like people. Such pictures are in all textbooks and in manuals for extracurricular work. For a long time I could not find the name of the artist. By the method of elimination, I assumed that this was E.V. Viktorov. I didn't find anything about him on the Internet. Maybe one of the readers knows about it?

E.V. Viktorov also created covers for math notebooks.

Probably, this is one of the first works of the artist. Textbook "Native speech. Grade 1" 1975.

And what were the first Soviet alphabets?

On December 26, 1919, a decree was issued on the elimination of illiteracy among the population of the RSFSR. Among the points of the decree were:
8. Those who evade the duties prescribed by this decree and prevent the illiterate from attending schools shall be subject to criminal liability.
This means that all those who could read and write were obliged to teach the illiterate, and those who could go to school. Apparently, in some families, girls and women were not allowed to go to schools - they say, this is not a woman's business.

However...
5. For literate students working for hire, with the exception of those employed in militarized enterprises, the working day is reduced by two hours for the entire duration of training with pay.

Full text of the decree -

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Primer for adults "Down with illiteracy" (1920), beginning with the slogan "We are not slaves. We are not slaves",

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There were others - "Workers' and Peasants' Primer", the communist primer "Competent Red Armyman" and "Anti-Religious Alphabet" (1933).

ABC of the Revolution, 1921

A series of posters "The ABC of the Revolution", made by Ukrainian artist Adolf Strakhov, was first published in 1921. The main theme of this set is the life of the young Soviet Republic in the first post-revolutionary years. "The ABC of Revolution", despite the imperfect literary form of its subtextual verses, was a significant phenomenon in the propaganda art of the 1920s and subsequently - in 1969 - was republished by the Kiev publishing house "Mistetstvo".

Continuation of the alphabet -

Anti-religious alphabet. Not for first graders.

UTILBURO IZOGYZA.
Moscow 1933 Leningrad.
Artist Mikhail Mikhailovich Cheremnykh.

- Nowadays in Russia they are not able to create any kind of sensible social advertising. No creativity, execution - so-so. And here - a whole alphabet with decent and expressive (I speak as a specialist) illustrations!
- "In our time in Russia they are not able to create any kind of sensible social advertising" - in our time everyone has become very "wiser" and a little something, they throw their rights like that. Therefore, you will not see good social advertising.

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Well, who would have thought that we would live to see a time when such a picture would again become relevant.

5.What did Gandhi not please the Soviet Bolsheviks?

- Well, apparently, during his political maneuvers, various criticisms arose against him.
- These are the communists, they always saw only enemies abroad, and they set the people against India, as well as against other countries ..
- Read the story. The USSR has always tried to maintain friendly relations with India, as with a revolutionary country that rose up against the yoke of the British colonial forces.
- In vain they are so about Gandhi.

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- As far as I remember, Ford supported the Nazis during the Third Reich, so he was attributed to this alphabet

- They dragged him here only because the so-called Ford assembly line, in the understanding of the communists, is the most pronounced form of exploitation, where the personality of a person in the production of any object does not have the slightest significance.

Continuation of the primer in

There was the "Soviet Erotic Alphabet", created in 1931 by the future People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Dmitrievich Merkurov (1881-1952). It is interesting that the author of this alphabet was a monumental sculptor, the author of numerous monuments to Joseph Stalin (including the three largest in the USSR) and Lenin, as well as tombstones near the Kremlin wall - F.E. Dzerzhinsky, A.A. Zhdanov, M.I. Kalinin, Ya.M. Sverdlov, M.V. Frunze.

Alphabet of Vladmir Konashevich- this time for children. No revolutionary slogans.

As the artist’s daughter recalled, “Azbuka” was born from letters that Konashevich wrote to his wife: “Dad wrote letters to my mother, and sent me pictures. For every letter of the alphabet. I was already four years old, and, obviously, he believed that it was time to already know the letters. Later, these pictures were published under the title "ABC in the drawings of Vl. Konashevich".

Publisher: TV-vo R. Golike and A. Vilborg
Place of publication: Petrograd
Publication year: 1918

Interestingly, there is no solid sign at the end of words in the alphabet, but the letters fita and izhitsa have been preserved.

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Primer 1937

The time is such that it is necessary to praise the leaders and dear comrades almost on their knees ...

I.S. Belyaev. Primer. 1943.

Gosizdat K-FSSR.

A prominent figure in the public education of Karelia. In teaching from 1930 to 1940. since 1940 - deputy people's commissar, and since 1944. to 1951 - People's Commissar - Minister of Public Education of the K-FSSR. In 1944-1949. did a lot to restore the school network in Karelia. Honored teacher of Karelia, candidate of pedagogical sciences, author of more than 20 textbooks. Several textbooks were prepared by him during the war years.

After the war.

"ABC", 1970.

Publishing House "Enlightenment", tenth edition. Authors: Voskresenskaya A.I., Redozubov S.P., Yankovskaya A.V.

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And this is a primer for children with hearing impairments. Deaf-mute children were called with 2-4 degrees of hearing loss and with complete hearing loss. Then there was no special equipment (headphones and microphones) and powerful hearing aids that would help children with 2-4 degrees. There were no modern methods of teaching speech to children. Therefore, they were taught to write correctly, to read lips - if they cannot say, then let them write on a piece of paper. And reading books is a source of knowledge. There were tactile alphabet and sign language at that time, but there were not very many sign language interpreters, mostly hearing children of deaf parents who lost their hearing after an illness (acquired non-hereditary deafness)

Zykov S.A. Primer for Schools of the Deaf and Dumb

Publisher: Gos. educational and pedagogical publishing house of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR Year: 1952

This primer is built according to the sound (analytical-synthetic) method. Training on it is designed for a year and a half. In order to maintain the interest of students in the primer, exercises-games are given, the texts are accompanied by illustrations. To develop a sense of rhythm, short verses are placed in the primer. When reading from the primer, children get acquainted with such grammar concepts as the singular and plural of a noun, the present and past tense of a verb, the masculine and feminine gender of a verb, the formation of words by adding a prefix, etc.
Learning to write is carried out simultaneously with learning to read, therefore, exercises for writing are also given in the primer.

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Donskaya N.Yu., Linikova N.I. Primer for schools of the hearing impaired.

Second edition. M .: Education, 1986. It was according to him (first edition) that I studied in the first grade immediately after the primer in a blue cover.

Cover artist E. v. Viktorov.

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Headphone and microphone controls, apparently built into the desk. Just added. I spoke today at work with a deaf person whose child is going to a school for deaf children. He said that in such schools there is no equipment for a long time, now everyone wears hearing aids of various capacities.

5. Here is the same equipment on the teacher's desk, but it is hard to see. The teacher does not sing into the microphone, she speaks. School desk for two students. The students have headphones, but they do not stand out. Apparently, the hodozhnik did not emphasize them for aesthetic reasons. Usually these are black rubber headphones on a black platform flexible hoop.

8. Emphasis on every word. Funny and instructive story. The artist is still the same E.V. Viktorov.

Well, that's it, I end the post on this.)

And what are the primers for modern schoolchildren now? ABCs?

September 1st! How long have I been going to school, that I already miss it ... Just imagine, I graduated from school 25 years ago!!! I studied 9 classes (in fact, 8, we skipped one class there during the reforms), then there was a technical school, renamed the campaign as a college ... well, that's another story.

But in this note, we will not talk about me, but about the era of the school 80s. Surprisingly, I have since left ABC And Primer.
Primer- mine (albeit without the front cover), and ABC- brother (the book is very well preserved).

I am very glad that I have preserved these copies, I am pleased to show them to today's children and compare them with books of the present. Well, in this report, I will show them to all of you and I think that it will be especially pleasant to look at them for those who studied in the 80s .., because not everyone has such books left.

1. Get to know, " Primer» edition of 1982, with which I went to first grade, and « ABC” edition of 1987, my brother attended the 1st grade with her.

2. Let's immediately look at the reverse side of the books, surprisingly, if the Primer cost 45 kopecks, then the ABC only 30 kopecks. It turns out that there was not inflation, but noticeable deflation! Or is it saving on design, as the fruit of "perestroika"? :-)

3. We open the book, here it is, the ABC ... are all the letters familiar? 😁

5. His image in school books was unobtrusive and pleasant, a real comrade.

6. Let's look through these books, as we studied then. First my Primer...

7. Stress, syllables, right there and road signs and instructions.

8. Working professions, and of course we do not forget what a beautiful country we live in.

9. At the end of the Primer - Leonid Ilyich.

10. Now the ABC: the books are similar in content, but slightly different in design.

11. We look at the pictures and remember our childhood...

12. On "X", of course, bread!

13. And of course about the dream .. as a teenager, I thought that humanity would soon fly to other planets! That's a worthy goal for Earthlings ;-)

14. This was not in my primer, in the ABC of my brother, at the end they taught the anthem!
Which country was destroyed... the current EU is a laughing matter for chickens.

The primer said goodbye with this poem:

You learn these letters.
There are more than three dozen
And for you they are the keys
To all good books.

Don't forget to take it on the road
Magic bunch of keys.
In any story you will find a way
You will enter any fairy tale.

Read books about animals
Plants and cars.
You will visit the seas
And on gray peaks.

Find an example of courage
In your favorite book.
You will see the whole USSR,
All the land from this tower.

You have wonderful lands
Will open the way from "A" to "Z"!

It is a pity that in the modern world, a number of Russian words are replaced by slang and anglicisms. And the benefit is that some continue to read not only chat rooms on the Internet.

Publications in the Literature section

Primer in the service of educational program

On October 10, 1918, a decree “On the introduction of a new spelling” was signed, which excluded the letters Ѣ, Ѳ, I from the alphabet, canceled the spelling of Ъ at the end of words - and generally brought Russian spelling to the form in which we know it today. "Kultura.RF" tells about the main post-revolutionary primers of different years.

"ABC" by Vladimir Konashevich, 1918

Alphabet of Vladimir Konashevich (cover). Petersburg, publishing house of the Partnership R. Golike and A. Vilborg. 1918

Alphabet of Vladimir Konashevich. Petersburg, publishing house of the Partnership R. Golike and A. Vilborg. 1918

The illustrated "ABC" by the Soviet artist Vladimir Konashevich became one of the first manuals of the new spelling (without the letter "yat"). The idea for the book was born during the artist's correspondence with his family, stuck in the Urals, cut off from the Soviet Republic by Kolchak's army. “Dad wrote letters to mom, and sent me pictures for each letter of the alphabet- recalled Konashevich's daughter Olga Chaiko. - I was already four years old, and, obviously, he believed that it was time to already know the letters.. Later, on the advice of acquaintances, Konashevich decided to publish these drawings - and in 1918 the ABC was published. It included 36 watercolor pictures. The objects and phenomena in the "ABC" were very different, from animals and plants to vehicles and toys. They were depicted simply, without perspective distortions, since Vladimir Konashevich believed that "a child should understand the picture at first sight."

Vladimir Mayakovsky. Soviet alphabet (cover). Moscow, 1919

Vladimir Mayakovsky. Soviet alphabet. Moscow, 1919

“An intellectual does not like risk. / And red in moderation, like a radish "- and so on from "A" to "Z". This topical alphabet was published for the first time in 1919, and Vladimir Mayakovsky was the author of not only its epigrams, but also caricature illustrations for each of the letters of the alphabet.

The main audience of this primer was the Red Army soldiers, whom Mayakovsky wanted to accustom to the poetic language with the help of such a satirical publication. “There were such witticisms that were not very suitable for the salon, but which went very well for the trenches” he recalled. Mayakovsky personally colored about five thousand copies of the alphabet, printed in the empty Stroganov printing house, when the Central Printing Press refused to publish the book to the poet. Later, Mayakovsky transferred many of the couplets from the Soviet Alphabet to the iconic ROSTA Windows.

"Down with illiteracy", 1920

Dora Elkina. Down with illiteracy! (Primer for adults). Moscow, Out-of-school department of MONO, 1920

Dora Elkina. Down with illiteracy! (Primer for adults). Moscow, Out-of-school department of MONO, 1920

Under this title, in 1919-1920, the first editions of the Soviet primer for adults were published, developed by Dora Elkina and a team of co-authors. These manuals taught the basics of reading and writing on the basis of political slogans: for example, students had to read the phrases "Advice of the people's alarm", "We bring freedom to the world" and the famous palindrome "We are not slaves, slaves are not us" in syllables. Bright propaganda posters and scenes from the life of the proletariat served as illustrations of the first Soviet alphabets.

A few years later, the Down with Illiteracy society was created, the purpose of which was to eliminate mass illiteracy. His work was supervised by major statesmen: Mikhail Kalinin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Anatoly Lunacharsky. Under the leadership of the society, not only textbooks were published, but also cultural and educational magazines, such as Kultpokhod and Let's Increase Literacy. According to historians, over the 13 years of its existence, the Down with Illiteracy society has trained about 5 million Soviet citizens.

Primer "Pioneer", 1925

Ivan Sverchkov. Pioneer. Children's primer (cover and title page). Leningrad, GIZ, 1925

Ivan Sverchkov. Pioneer. Children's primer. Leningrad, GIZ, 1925

The purpose of this manual was to teach schoolchildren not only the basics of literacy, but also the structure of the world around them and Soviet life. "Pioneer" told young readers about life in cities and villages, about various proletarian professions, about domestic and wild animals, about measuring length, weight and time with the help of illustrations in an engraving style. Of course, the ideological component was also strong in the book. One of the main images of the primer was the October Revolution and Vladimir Lenin: many poems of the primer were dedicated to them.

And the very childhood in the young Soviet country "Pioneer" was inextricably linked with the concept of "ours": gardens, schools, camps and even the revolution were portrayed in common.

"Primer" by Nikolai Golovin, 1937

Nikolay Golovin. Primer (cover). Moscow, Uchpedgiz, 1937

Nikolay Golovin. Primer. Moscow, Uchpedgiz, 1937

"Children were taught by the whole country / According to Golovin's primer", - they said in the Soviet Union, and not without exaggeration. Perhaps there was no school in the late 1930s - early 1940s where this textbook, compiled by the honored teacher of the RSFSR Nikolai Golovin, was not read. The material in the book ranged from simple to complex: from reading by syllables to writing, from short stories about ordinary children's activities to poems dedicated to Lenin and Stalin, with obvious political overtones.

A distinctive feature of the "Primer" were illustrations, to which the editorial board made special demands. The images were bright, positive and simple, not overloaded with details, and also had a very clear didactic and educational tone, showing readers patterns of correct behavior.

"Primer" by Alexandra Voskresenskaya, 1944

Alexandra Resurrection. Primer (cover). Moscow, Uchpedgiz, 1956

Alexandra Resurrection. Primer. Moscow, Uchpedgiz, 1956

The Primer, authored by the methodologist and teacher of the Russian language Alexandra Voskresenskaya, was one of the most successful textbooks for elementary school: it was reprinted twenty times. The secret of the primer's success was a successful combination of tasks for the development of memory, imagination and training in writing and reading skills. The material in the manual became more complicated smoothly and gradually: from a combination of sounds to syllables, from them to short words, small phrases, and so on. The main motive for the illustrations in the book was a measured and happy village life (initially, according to Voskresenskaya's "Primer", they studied in rural schools).

Alexandra Voskresenskaya also paid special attention to preparing for the education of preschoolers and created the famous “alphabet with a stork” for teaching children in the family.

"Primer" by Sergei Redozubov, 1945

Sergei Redozubov. Primer (cover). Moscow, Uchpedgiz, 1946

Sergei Redozubov. Primer (cover). Moscow, Uchpedgiz, 1956

Sergei Redozubov. Primer. Moscow, Uchpedgiz, 1950

The post-war primer was illustrated with scenes of peaceful work and leisure: young pioneers were portrayed for extracurricular reading, games, sports and cleaning. Describing these pictures and relying on auxiliary ones, students learned to come up with short stories for each lesson. Near the end of the Primer were poems and stories to read, including reworked Russian folk tales. True, the manual was difficult for children: it did not always follow the gradual complication of phrases and texts for parsing, and each page was overloaded with columns of words with the same or similar syllables.

Vseslav Goretsky. Primer. Moscow, publishing house "Enlightenment", 1993

Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences Vseslav Goretsky built his primer not according to the alphabet, but according to the frequency of the use of letters in speech and writing: they opened the book with “a” and “o”, and closed it with “b” and “b”. It was also the first primer that was released along with copybooks and didactic material.

A feature of the "Primer" was its game form. Travel to the "country of knowledge" together with the students was shared by popular characters: Pinocchio, Dunno and Murzilka, and the tasks were often funny riddles and rebuses. The book also contained many easy-to-memorize poems, including those by Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Korney Chukovsky, and Samuil Marshak.

Goretsky's Primer turned out to be so popular and loved by children that it continued to be published and republished for 30 years, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Born and raised in the USSR, what do you think: how much of what you think their beliefs and values, your, and what was simply driven into your head in childhood and became a part of you against your will? What is really dear to you, and what are you just trained to love? Why were you proud of some things and ashamed of others? How do you define what is good and what is bad?

Do not rush to answer. Let's leaf through the 1984 primer together, which I (and you, probably) were once taught from.

A primer is a book that children opened first, absorbing everything that was written in it or read between the lines without doubt or criticism. Each of his words laid down in the foundation of their future worldview as the ultimate truth. It takes years, a flexible and inquisitive mind, the habit of healthy reflection and a supportive environment to rethink and revise the beliefs formed in early childhood. Many never manage to get rid of the cliches imposed in childhood, and they do not consider it necessary.

What lesson did the primer begin with? What was written on its first page?

Mom, Motherland, Lenin. Here they are - the words that should have become the closest and dearest to us. Haven't forgotten anyone? And where is dad? What, did not even enter the top three? But Lenin was not forgotten - here they are, clearly set priorities.

I wonder what will be written in primers after 2017, when Putin and, perhaps, will significantly expand his powers? Mom, our Crimean, Putin? Or will mom be thrown out as unnecessary, replaced with something more useful - with "Orthodoxy", for example?

Lenin's snide physiognomy in full page (there are no more such large pictures in the book at all) - the first thing the child saw after the word "primer book". Later, the child was informed that Lenin "ardently wanted" the guys to grow up as staunch communists. Competent and hardworking citizens. Sensible and unpretentious cogs, in a word. So that at least sanctions, at least stones from the sky - nothing at all. Is it any wonder then that Lenin's mummy still lies on Red Square, and the population patiently demolishes any government experiments on the long-suffering domestic economy?

Motherland - the second of the most important words in the primer is the USSR - united, powerful, great, beautiful and generally the best. The coat of arms, the flag, the image on the map - everything is to show how important this thing is - the state. It is not for nothing that for many the collapse of the USSR is a personal tragedy, the actual loss of the Motherland. Now nostalgia for the USSR is successfully fueling aggression against Russia's closest neighbors under the guise of uniting the "Russian world". So what if people die? This is for the motherland!

And here is a funny exercise: “the pilot is sawing; carpenter - swims; captain is flying. You need to arrange the words correctly so that they correspond to each other. I don’t remember what I was thinking about when I saw this exercise many years ago, but now for some reason it immediately occurred to me that Shuvalov was flying with us (on his Bombardier), Usmanov was sailing on the world’s largest yacht, and sawing. Everyone is sawing who can get to the budget money. Alas, this is the time.

The fate of the Soviet schoolchild was predetermined from birth: an October child - a pioneer - a Komsomol member - a communist. It is no coincidence that everything began in October, more precisely, with the Great October Revolution. The date of the banal coup has become a starting point, a sacred event and even a kind of “thing in itself”. Is it possible to say: “glory to September” or “glory to the New Year”? Sounds stupid. And "glory to October", it turns out, you can.

And here, in general, the whole spread is dedicated to the symbols of communist ideology: Leningrad, Aurora, pioneers and a demonstration that demonstrates nothing but the controllability of the herd that voluntarily-compulsorily came out on it.

One gets the feeling that the USSR was purposefully preparing for a large-scale space expansion - otherwise why invest in children the desire to become astronauts? A more exotic profession still needs to be looked for: for 300 million inhabitants of the USSR, there are less than 120 cosmonauts, including 33 who have already died. Less than one astronaut for 2 million people - was it worth it to conduct such a long-term advertising campaign?

Moreover, the topic of cosmonautics is raised repeatedly, despite the fact that by 1984 the leadership in space had long been lost, and the Soviet space program was special to its participants. with his dream of colonizing Mars, it is worth taking note of the idea - it will be useful for educating future Martians.

Militarism, too, of course, was not bypassed. Those volunteers who are now fighting in the DPR/LPR were also brought up in the spirit of respect for the glorious Soviet soldiers.

The children learned to honor the veterans and, for granted, accepted the idea that for peace it is possible (and necessary) to fight, no matter how absurd and hypocritical it may sound.

After reviewing the primer, I realized where a whole bunch of other, harmless clichés came from in my head: a dog is a man's best friend; Pushkin is a great Russian writer (by the way, why not a poet?); Tolstoy is a brilliant Russian writer; Mayakovsky - the great Soviet poet; Marshak, Mikhalkov, Barto are remarkable Soviet writers.

Ready-made labels hang on everything in the primer. Instead of simply signing this or that work and allowing the kids to form their own opinion about it, they are annoyingly informed that these authors are great and brilliant. The ability to evaluate and think critically has always been a superfluous skill for those who were destined to stand in line and obey the wise directions of the party and government.

As a result, if you look at Russians aged 30 to 50, it turns out that most of them have a head full of attitudes and clichés, the price of which is not even a penny, but 45 kopecks - that’s how much the Soviet primer cost, stuffed to capacity with communist ideology.

Of course, he was the first, but not the only link in the chain. Behind him, other books, films, newspapers, TV shows, performances, public events, and what the hell else would come into play. All this had one goal - to educate the man of the future, the builder of communism.

I don’t know who first came up with the idea that it is permissible to manipulate children, gradually pushing “correct” ideas and values ​​​​into their heads, but we now see the result of this in all its glory: an infantile population with densely powdered brains, vainly trying to find points contact between objective reality and the program laid down in childhood, nostalgic for the great and beautiful country, which in fact never existed.

Download Soviet textbook

Study! Study! And learn again!

V.I.Lenin

Approved by the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR

© " Penlightenment" Moscow 1987

Format: PDF, File size: 5.35MB

Today you start your journey to a wonderful, extraordinary country - the Land of Knowledge! You will learn to read and write, for the first time you will write the most dear and close words for all of us: mother. Motherland, .

The school will help you become a literate and hardworking citizen of our great Motherland - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

We congratulate you on the beginning of your studies and give you the first school book - Primer. Keep him safe! It will open the door to the world of new, interesting books for you. From it you will learn how great and beautiful our Motherland is, how much the Soviet people do so that there will always be peace on the whole Earth! ..

Be diligent and hardworking.

Good luck, dear friend!

Download textbook USSR - Primer 1987

Cm. Textbook excerpt...

Pilots in flight - Those who are in the sky At work!

Those who are at the stoves - No hot work!

Tractor driver -

Glory in the field

And your job is at school.

Your work is also in sight.

Honest work!

Goats and wolf.

There lived a goat. She had seven children. She made herself a hut in the forest. Every day the goat went to the forest for food. She will leave herself, and tells the children to lock themselves tightly and tightly and not open the doors to anyone ...

When the dog approaches the swamp, the lapwing flies off the nest and lures the dog along with it. He runs in front of the dog itself. The dog rushes after him, wants to catch. And the lapwing leads the dog away from its nest.