"THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE ELIMINATION OF ILLITERACY IN EARLY SOVIET UZBEKISTAN AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN THE PERIODICAL PRESS"

Abstract

This article investigates the campaign for the elimination of illiteracy in early Soviet Uzbekistan and examines the ways in which this campaign was portrayed in the periodical press of the 1920s and early 1930s. Following the establishment of Soviet authority in Central Asia, literacy became a central element of the broader project of social transformation and political consolidation. In Uzbekistan, where traditional educational structures had long shaped intellectual life, the literacy campaign unfolded within a complex cultural and social environment.