DYNAMICS OF CHUVASH MILITIA EDUCATIONAL LEVEL DURING SOVIET SOCIETY MODERNIZATION
The article examines the educational level of Chuvash militia during the Soviet society modernization processes from the 1930s to the first half of the 1980s. The article characterizes the quantity and quality of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic militia personnel and recruitment difficulties due to the low educational level of citizens entering the police force. The author identifies a growth trend in the militia personnel’s educational level, largely due to specialized educational institutions of the NKVD, and later the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which became the basis for training police specialists, although the problem was not fully solved until the end of the twentieth century.