BAKU STATE UNIVERSITY DURING THE HARD TRIALS OF 1920S-1930S: CRITICAL ADMINISTRATIVE CHALLENGES AND RED TERROR
Journal: Reconstructing the Past Journal of Historical Studies
Year: 2024

This paper focuses on the higher education reforms carried out in the Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1920s and 1930s and their impact on Baku State University. Beginning from the first years of the Soviet rule, the People’s Commissariat of Education in the Azerbaijan SSR concentrated the authority to lead all cultural and educational affairs. The main areas of the spiritual life of the newly established Soviet republic, its education, science, literature, and art, were actually brought under the contr