This article is based on a bibliographical data set of over 2,600 history textbooks from the post-1945 Soviet Union and eleven out of its fifteen successor states, including books on international, national, and regional or local history. Among these, it analyzes the illustrations used in 450 books that cover the period of the Second World War.…

How can the individual preserve his identity within a crowd? How can he/she counter the threats and the temptations of the mass phenomenon? In the following, these questions are answered, correctly based on two contrasting and complementary situations and approaches: on the one hand, the beginnings of the Soviet Union in the 1920s as manifested in…

The purpose of this study is to analyze of Eurasianism, which began during the Russian scientific and philosophical emigration and has generated sharp discussion over the last century. Within the framework of Eurasianism, extensive research has been conducted on a wide range of interrelated topics, much of whose theoretical and practical…

Herein is made a report of a conference of the Presidium attended by psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, educators, historians, and economists from 11 universities, 34 teachers colleges and 20 research institutes. There was attention given to the relation between social psychology and other disciplines, mass behavior, critical analysis, and…

Eight articles focus on various aspects of the sociology of youth in the USSR. All articles are translated and reprinted from recent educational publications within the USSR. Topics discussed include the degree to which young people demonstrate characteristics deemed desirable in Soviet youth, vocational education, youth organizations and social…

The search for a conceptually integrated study of society during the 1860's did not produce a system of sociological thought. It did provide a basis upon which most of Russian sociology was built during the following decades. (Author)

Selected papers presented at the First Scientific Conference of Pedagogical Scholars of Socialist Countries, Moscow, 1971, deal with methodology in relation to science, human development, sociology, psychology, cybernetics, and the learning process. (KM)

Characterizes trends in the development of applied sociology in the Byelorussian S.S.R., which reflects general developments in the USSR as a whole. Applied sociology studies the specific laws of development and functioning of social structures, processes, systems, organizations, and their component parts. It researches specific social groups,…

Four papers discuss research exchanges between the United States and the USSR and East Europe. The first paper considers the evolution of perceptions of social scientists in these countries during the Cold War and Detente. The dominant view of American researchers during the Cold War was that the United States, as the most modern society, was the…

There is no comprehensive understanding of the idea of personality in Soviet and Russian pedagogics. Past discussions about personality have focused on personality orientation as determined by the prevailing motives that explain the behavior and conduct of man. In soviet psychology, the nature of man is considered to be his relations to other men,…

Analyzes sociological research conducted by Kazakhstan libraries between 1991 and 1994. Highlights include discussions on the sociology of reading, research results, and library facilities. It was found that reading is characterized by frequent changes in demands of readers caused by dramatic shifts in ideology, politics, and economics in the…

This issue presents a recent Soviet monograph on urban youth. It covers the beginning of independence in young people's lives, the functioning of youth in the national economy during the first years after graduation from general education school, and the young machine builders of Leningrad. (Author/ND)

A game ("Personal Plans of Youth") simulating the opportunities and restraints operative in the "implementation" of a life career was used to examine the attitudes of 14-15 year-old youth attending a comprehensive school in the Novosibirsk province of the USSR. The game incorporated the following five units or groups of…

Explores the concept of good teaching in universities worldwide by interviewing professors and exchange students from USSR, England, Spain, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, Turkey, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Finds that teaching receives low priority in elite institutions while universities with open access…

Maintains that college students have been the object of repeated sociological research in countries formerly in the Soviet Union (USSR). Reports on a study of more than 3,000 Russian students and professors. Includes five tables indicating student attitudes toward religion, student behavior, and participation in outside-of-class cultural…