Unlearned lessons of children’s movement: to the 95th anniversary of the foundation of the pioneer organization

the children's social movement in Russia is entering a new period of its development, connected with the establishment of the public-state children's and youth organization «Russian movement of schoolchildren». In this connection, the author's appeal to the consideration of the processes and tendencies of the emergence of a new subject in the children's movement on the background of an analysis of the achievements, problems and mistakes of past periods of its development, especially of the pioneer and post-pioneer movement is timely. The base for generalizations and conclusions is the long experience of the author of the article in the field of practice and theory of the children's movement in the USSR and the Russian Federation. The author pays attention to the positive experience of raising children, accumulated in almost a century of the existence of the pioneer organization, and the negative consequences of its deliberate destruction. At the same time, mistakes were made in organizing the activities of a pioneer organization, knowledge of which could become instructive at a new stage of the development of the children's movement in modern Russia. In the context of the historical lessons of the pioneer organization, the problems and contradictions that have already manifested themselves at the first stage of the formation of the «Russian movement of schoolchildren» are considered. The materials of the article are of a discussion nature and will be of interest to researchers and leaders of the children's movement.