ABSTRACT
While the general well-being of the citizen will be affected by the development of the economy as a whole, he will be particularly closely touched by the social services available to him, and it is to these that we now turn. The progress of education in the eight republics has been rapid, and it will be discussed in detail below, since local conditions, and in particular the historical traditions of the various national groupings, have played a large part in determining the progress that could be made in a limited time. Similarly, the medical services in the narrow sense tend to differ in quality and in approach according to the specific local problems (for example, the prevalence of tropical diseases as of social customs which hamper the practice of modern public health).
