League "education" and its impact on the growth of social consciousness of the provincial intelligentsia (on materials of the Yenisei province)

The article is devoted to the history of the establishment and development of a non-governmental organisation the «League of Education» with the purpose of celebrating its 100th anniversary. It was necessary not only to analyze the main areas of the organizational practice but also to compare its goals and objectives with the current «League of Education» which was founded in 2006. Therefore, the main tasks of this article were determined as follows: to identify the main national and regional socio-economical and socio-cultural factors and conditions that influenced the formation of the «League of Education»; to describe the socio-political composition of the governing bodies; to determine the directions and nature of work with the view of using this historical experience in the current conditions. The following principles were used in the research: historicism, systematic approach and objectivity. Attempts were made to reconstruct the activities of non-governmental organisations in the sphere of propaganda and development of mass public education in provincial towns...