ABSTRACT
Students in higher educational institutions constitute a numerically large and growing complement among Soviet youth. The higher education system in the USSR, in addition to daytime instruction in universities and institutes, also includes evening and correspondence divisions where young people with full-time jobs study. This chapter will deal only with those students who are enrolled in daytime divisions and who are not employed in production-who are not, that is, actual members of any of society's classes or social strata but are "en route" to the social group of the intelligentsia. These students have diverse social origins which, if analyzed, provide us with a picture of the social sources of student recruitment in the Soviet Union.
