Changes in education in the first quarter of the 20th century

This article focuses on the educational reforms in Turkestan in the early years of Soviet rule and the elimination of women's illiteracy. Archival materials and periodicals were used to cover the topic. Only in Khorezm district, 32,394 children aged 9–16 were enrolled in school, of which 14,597 were girls. A total of 163,889 people, including 77,725 women, were trained to eradicate illiteracy among the population aged 16–49. In the words of the time, "women had to be literate in order to be truly free, to move to a new way of life, and to go through the stages of forming a legal consciousness." As a result of the activities of the Communist Party on the basis of the Decree, in 1921 alone, 1,000 women's clubs were established in Turkestan to eradicate illiteracy, with the participation of about 50,000 women.