Soviet Upbringing in 1970s-1980s
The author analyzes numerous scientific foreign and domestic publications and emphasizes that many aspects of Soviet upbringing go back to such prominent authors as K. Marx and V. I. Lenin. It was their views that became the fundamental guidelines for the new moral attitudes in the Soviet society. Essential forces of man are released only when contradictions between external circumstances and the creative nature of man have to be resolved. Marx believed that people are the products of circumstances and upbringing, and that an individual cannot be regarded as a blind and passive force: it is people who change circumstances and upbringing. Most authors believe that the Communist Party played a key role in the Soviet upbringing due to its total control and filtering of unnecessary information. In the 1970s-1980s, the USSR acquired great practical experience in this sphere. A thorough multilateral analysis of foreign literature revealed that foreign scientists displayed a great interest in the strong spirit of Soviet people, as well as in those new complex system-pedagogical trends that were implemented in the 1970-s in the USSR. Soviet scientists distinguished more than 160 features that a person should have, i.e. diligence, respect for the elderly, aesthetic taste, physical perfection, etc.