abstract: The article provides a thorough historiographical analysis of the policy of eliminating illiteracy in the Ukrainian SSR during the 1920s.The historiographical legacy on this issue was examined, three stages of the formation and development of the historiographical understanding of the mentioned issues were identified and described in detail.Scientific works devoted to the study of the process of overcoming mass illiteracy were analyzed, with a particular focus on the research conducted at the re
journal: Acta de Historia & Politica Saeculum XXI