ABSTRACT
After about seventy years of very stable society which had the proclaimed aim of building communism Russia has been undergoing a period of transformation since 1985-the year when Gorbachev came to power as Secretary General of the Communist Party. This is not to say that there had been no previous changes in the economy and the social sphere. But at no time before had there been an attempt to encroach upon the sancta sanctorum-Marxist-Leninist teaching. This proclaimed in short that the future of all peoples of the world was to be communism and that capitalism was to die either by its natural death of internal contradictions in any given country or by the world socialist revolution helped by the socialist campi.e. by the countries where socialist regimes had already been established. The stable political system meant a uniform education system in which political education was a very important part. The term education for citizenship was hardly ever used then, but political indoctrination along Marxist lines was never put in doubt.
