ABSTRACT
One of the most brilliant achievements of the Soviet Union is in the sphere of childhood and in its attainment of free, compulsory, universal primary education. The achievements during the period of the first Five Year Plan were as far-reaching in the field of education as in industry or agriculture. Rapid progress is now being made in a plan for the development of universal education during a period of seven years of schooling. The cultural revolution is the extension of the plan of education to the population as a whole. The Russians have been uncultured and crude in social amenities but have large capacity for artistic development. Whatever else the Revolution may be, it is a Renaissance of youth. No system of education could stand in sharper contrast to the regimented, collective mass education of Soviet Russia than does the English. Its privileged universities of Oxford and Cambridge were founded nearly eight hundred years ago.
