The article focuses on the impact of the Soviet school system reforms of the 1930s on the financial state of school teachers of the Mordovian ASSR. The 1930s were the period when the Soviet school structure was established, unified curricula were developed, and regulatory requirements to school and teachers were defined. The paper describes the effect of increased requirements to the educational process on the status of teachers. Based on the analysis of archive materials and newspaper articles, the author examines the responsibilities of teachers, the peculiarities of their wages and social security, as well as the employment pattern of secondary school teachers in Mordovia during the pre-war period. The problems of teachers’ status and the influence of these problems on the prestige of the teaching profession are analyzed. The issues of teachers’ public work and their responsibility for political education of pupils are examined in detail.
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