The beginning of the process of national limitation and sovietism in the public education system in Turkestan

By 1917, there were three types of schools for the local population in Turkestan: (local) Muslim population: 1) confessional - old-style schools and madrasas (madrasas); 2) schools and secular educational institutions that occupy an intermediate position between the new method (jadid) and the old-style schools; 3) secular - schools in the Russian language. By the decree of the Turkestan ASSR (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) of May 14, 1918, a radical socialist reform of the education system in Turkestan began. The attitude of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) and Turkestan Bolshevik Soviet officials to the local education system was largely determined by the policy towards religion and the CPC (Council of People's Commissars) of RSFSR Decree of January 23, 1918, on the separation of the church from the state. On November 20, 1918, a similar decree was adopted in TASSR. This article describes the results of this decree and the reforms in the field of education in Turkestan.