Presents results of survey and questionnaire research on how both single and married young people spend their leisure time in the Soviet Union. Finds that a number of traditional leisure pastimes are being crowded out by new technical and artistic activities. Expresses concern that student families have little leisure time largely because of…

The booklet describes the development and current status of public education in the Soviet Union. Readers are reminded that the 22 million square kilometers and the more than 100 nationalities speaking 108 languages complicate organization of an educational system embodying traditional progressive democratic education and postrevolutionary…

The Soviet view of education as a chief resource for achieving national, social, economic, cultural, and scientific objectives is reflected in this report of the first U.S. mission to the U.S.S.R. The following topics are covered: The Administrative System of Soviet Education, Nurseries and Kindergartens, Schools of General Education, Extraschool…