Realization of the right to education in music universities of the Volga region in the 1950s - 1960s: problems and solutions

In the Russian Federation a number of problems still remain unresolved in the field of realizing the rights of citizens to education. Progressive changes in this area can be promoted with the study of the experience of previous generations and its further implementation into practice. The purpose of this work is to determine the effectiveness of the mechanism for the implementation of the right to education in the music universities of the Volga region in the 1950s - 1960s. The objectives of the research are to analyze the relevant for the 1950s - 1960s regulatory legal acts in the field of national education in general and music vocational education in particular; to study published and unpublished materials containing information about the features of the educational process in higher educational institutions of the Volga region in the 1950s - 1960s; to identify problems in the sphere of realizing the right to education that existed in the region’s music universities in the 1950s - 1960s and the ways to solve them. The source base of the study includes published materials (regulatory legal acts, collections of documents, scientific works) and materials from central, regional and republican archives (State Archives of the Russian Federation; State Archives of the Saratov Region; Central Archives of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, National Archives of the Republic of Tatarstan). The work used scientific methods typical for historical and legal research: formal legal, comparative legal, historical genetic and comparative historical. The study showed that in the 1950s - 1960s, the students’ right to education was realized at a high level in the music universities of the Volga region. The study of published sources and archival documents made it possible to reveal the degree of effectiveness of the mechanism for the realization of the right to education in music higher educational institutions of the region in the 1950s - 1960s. The results of the study can serve as a basis for further study of the mentioned problem in domestic music educational institutions and serve to improve the system of professional music education in the Volga region at the present stage, taking into account historical experience.