Primers of the Soviet era. A return to the past or a new reality?

The relevance of the topic is determined by social processes in Russian society, the demand of the parent community for the return of the Soviet-era education system. Modern social movements such as the All-Russian Parental Resistance, Educational Partisans, For the revival of Education, are becoming real participants in the educational process, spreading the ideas of teaching according to “Stalinist” textbooks, publishing educational and methodological literature of the Soviet period. In this regard, it became necessary to analyze the content of the designated textbooks from the point of view of the possibility of their use in home schooling. The article compares the ABC books and alphabets of the Soviet period (since 1947) by such authors as N.A. Kostin, S.P. Redozubov, A.I. Voskresenskaya, and others, and the ABC by V.G. Goretsky from the School of Russia (20172024). The comparison is based on linguistic, methodological features of textbooks and their applications. artistic design. The author examines the principles and goals of creating alphabets, the structure of textbooks, the ways of presenting the material, as well as the skills formed by the alphabets in question. Attention is drawn to such methods and techniques as the sound analytical-synthetic method, “reading-writing”, the principles of “from simple to complex” and “no more than one difficulty per lesson.” The article analyzes both the advantages and disadvantages of the textbooks under consideration, ranging from the presence/absence of phonetic analysis to unsuccessful formulations of the theory of linguistics. Reliance on scientific achievements in the field of phonetics and phonology, on research in the field of child psychology determines the continuity of alphabets and alphabets from different eras in methodological and substantive terms.