The book comprehensively examines the educational function of the history course and formulates the requirements for teaching history in the light of the idea of ​ ​ an integrated approach to education. The manual contains a large number of specific recommendations for individual lessons in the history of the USSR, new and modern history. It will help teachers in the system to realize the ideological and educational possibilities of the history course, to more effectively solve the tasks of communist education in the process of educational work.