ABSTRACT

First published in 1998. This is Volume VII, the final of eight in the Sociology of the Soviet Union series. Collated in 1957, this is a collection of translated excerpts from the Soviet Press on the achievements and problems of the youth in the USSR. These pieces have been chosen to illustrate the most salient features in the overall picture of Soviet youth obtained from readings in the various Soviet materials, supplemented by introductions in order to provide the necessary perspective.

part |97 pages

School Age

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

chapter |30 pages

Leisure

chapter |3 pages

Vova Sees a Film

chapter |4 pages

Pioneers Spend the Summer in the City

An Account of Comprehensive 1 Pioneer Groups and Detachments Working in the Schools and Dwelling Houses of Leningrad

chapter |5 pages

A Mother's Story

part |62 pages

Young Worker and Student

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter |5 pages

Pupils' Reading

chapter |2 pages

Why must Shukhov have a Signet Ring?

A Young Worker's Personal Budget

chapter |4 pages

A Quarrel

chapter |6 pages

The Evil Eye

chapter |2 pages

The Youngest

chapter |4 pages

Meeting

Letter from the Virgin Lands

chapter |4 pages

On the Virgin Lands

Pages from a Diary