ABSTRACT
In modern society the pillars of society are the family, the school, and the Church. The period of the Second Socialist Offensive was characterized by additional efforts to uproot the traditional structure of the family. The antifamily policy was crowned by partial success: around 1930, on the average, family ties were substantially weaker than they had been before the revolution. But this partial success was more than balanced by a number of detrimental effects unforeseen by the promoters of the Communist Experiment. The Soviet government recognized the significance of the patriotic attitude of the Church. The grandiose collective idea of the supremacy of the masses was undercut by the stalinist proposition that only the authorities were able to judge what was what in that sphere. The school ceased to transmit to the younger generation the culture tradition accumulated in the course of centuries.
