The article examines the image of an ideal child in the plots of national primers of the USSR in the 1950s – 1970s. The author has analysed the corpus of sources - initial Russian literacy teaching aids published in the union and autonomous republics. The work compares, contrasts and generalises their texts and illustrations. The article deals with the following situations: a child at school, a child at home and a child outdoors. The author concludes that the considered textbooks presented a unified for the whole country socio-pedagogical ideal of a junior schoolchild. The textbooks broadcast to the child a universal set of stable characteristics and patterns of behaviour, oriented towards a common system of values and offer as a behavioural model a ‘Soviet’ responsible, neat and hardworking child who loves to study and willingly helps his/her peers. The differences between the textbooks of different republics and territories lie in details related to national dress, ethnic features of appearance, names of characters, etc. Thus, the author reveals the structuring of a system of values to which all Soviet children should be oriented when building family, friendship and other social relations
Anastasia Egorova (Mon,) studied this question.