Scientific and educational communication environment of the Soviet Russia. Volga region 1917-1921

The author examines the traditions and innovations in the scientific and educational space of the Volga region, the conditions for maintaining a high spiritual and moral level of the university communication environment, the specifics of formation of the scientific elite in the sphere of higher education (in the field of history) in a difficult period of revolution and civil war in 1917-1921, and the first steps in the ideologization of scholarly humanitarian knowledge.