Saratov periodicals of the 1918-1921 as a source on the history of regional book publishing in the field of education and science

Saratov periodicals of the 1918-1921 are valuable sources on the history of the regional book publishing in different fields. The article is based on the publications from the newspaper «News of the Saratov Council...» and the magazines «Enlightenment», «Proletarian Education», «Red Army Soldier», Cooperative Thought»; the author traces the processes of the formation of Soviet book publishing, which was based on the efforts of various scientific and educational communities, consumer cooperation, military publishers and, above all, on the activity of the publishing commission of the Saratov Provincial Council for the People Education. Due to the initiative of the Council for the People Education, it became possible to publish a number of textbooks for higher education, mainly on medicine and natural sciences. The emergence of scientific literature was often preceded by articles in the local periodicals. The production of educational and scientific literature accelerated with the formation of the Saratov branch of the State Publishing House in 1920. The specificity of the region was the presence of a strong core of qualified teachers of the University of Saratov, who prepared new editions of well-known works, and also were authors of original textbooks and manuals: among them there were professors A.A. Heraklitov, L.N. Yurovsky, A.I. Berdnikov, N.A. Granstrom, N.G. Stadnitsky, P.S. Grigorjev, A.A. Bogomolets, N.K. Pixanov.