Military and patriotic education of youth: features of its formation in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia

The article analyzes the problems of studying patriotic and military-patriotic education in the Russian Federation. The authors found that in most pedagogical studies, the emphasis is on the patriotic education of schoolchildren and the preparation of future teachers for this activity. The patriotic education of future defenders of the Fatherland is studied by scientists on the basis of specific educational institutions. In the historical aspect, the features of military-patriotic education are presented in works devoted to a specific period of history and a separate region. It was revealed that the features of the organization of patriotic education in the 1980s are manifested in the activation of the military-patriotic work of the pioneer and Komsomol organizations and in teaching different school subjects. In the 1990s there was a decrease in the level of military- patriotic education, its importance in the theory and practice of education ceases to be relevant. Since the early 2000s the issues of patriotic education get more attention at the state level, there was an awareness of its importance for the development of the country and increase of its defence capability, the number of scientific research works on this problem increased. Military-patriotic education in the policy of the state faded into the background, family and civic education became a priority.