ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The inclusion of public education and socialized medicine in the Soviet plans is seen, even by emigrés from Russia, to be by far their most important action. Polled by researchers in the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System these emigrés confessed that despite the political slant of the Soviet educational system, it was 'something to be kept'. And the Soviet educational system obtained this verdict as often as all other specifically cited institutions combined. 'The absolute assurance in the educability of children was apparent at every level', was noted by the General Secretary of the Guild of Backward Children on his return to England. The deeper springs of Russian motivation are a belief in tomorrow, that a shorter working day and ever more widely diffused educational facilities will be universal.
