Educational Thought in the Period of the Consolidation and Development of Socialist Society in the USSR

Abstract

Subsequently, the CPSU Central Committee passed a number of important decrees on ideological matters; these decrees presented further elaboration of Lenin's principles of Soviet culture—service to the people, and acknowledgment of the vital social role played by the arts, their party orientation, realism, and link with the political tasks of our time, the life of the people. Problems of the development of science, art, and literature were viewed as the concern of the whole people. At the same time, a number of serious shortcomings were discovered in the development of literature and the arts—formalism, lack of contact with life, and so on. The entire system of public education, especially the Soviet school system, was called upon to raise the level of ideological-upbringing work, which confronted pedagogical theory with the necessity of focusing more attention on the further formulation of theoretical problems of upbringing and education.