Some aspects of the history of studying the problem of cultural and educational work in the Red Army since the 1920s to June 1941 in the materials of scientific conferences and articles by Russian scholars published at the beginning of the 21st century

Cultural and educational work was an integral, but relatively independent part of a unique military-historical phenomenon: party-political work, which was successfully carried out in the Armed Forces of the Soviet state throughout their history. In contemporary Russian historiography increased attention to the problem of cultural and educational work in the Red Army (RKKA) since the 1920s to June 1941 was embodied in the corresponding array of historiographic sources. The author of this article analyzes two types of historiographic sources: materials of scientific conferences and articles by Russian researchers published from 2001 to the present. A distinctive feature of contemporary Russian historiography is its exceptionally dynamic and unfinished nature, which left a strong imprint on the materials of scientific conferences and articles by Russian researchers covering a number of aspects of the cultural and educational work in the Red Army. There is a process of overcoming the methodological crisis and the emergence of new theoretical and methodological approaches in Russian historical science.