Sukhumi. Alashara. 1981. 115 p. The work of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor A. E. Kuprava (Abkhazian Institute of YALI of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR) summarizes the cultural development of Abkhazia over 60 years of socialist construction. For the author, the reference to this topic was conditioned by his long-term work on historical and cultural problems1 . The research is based on previously published documentary materials introduced into scientific circulation by the author and other researchers of the history of Abkhazia. The essay nature of the publication allowed us to limit ourselves to data that reflected not so much internal changes in the cultural process as its dynamics, the results by the end of each of the stages of cultural construction in the republic. The problem-chronological principle underlying the work allowed the author to consider the main directions of cultural construction in Abkhazia: the development of public education, the elimination of illiteracy, the activities of cultural and scientific institutions, and art culture. The structure of the work reflects the generally accepted periodization of cultural construction, taking into account the peculiarities of the development of the Abkhazian ASSR: the beginning of the construction of Soviet culture (1921-1927); the decisive successes of the cultural revolution (1928-1941); culture during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945); cultural construction in the post-war years (1945-1960); culture of developed socialism (1961-1980). A. E. Kuprava emphasizes the fact that the socialist culture of Abkhazia developed taking into account the democratic elements formed in the original folk art. The author organically connects the question of the initial level of the cultural revolution with the problem of cultural heritage. Undoubtedly, the low level of literacy of the population, the lack of developed written traditions, the small number of intellectuals, despite all the significa ... Читать далее