Notes on Educational Research in the U.S.S.R.

See George S. Counts. Khrushchev and the Central Committee Speak on Education. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959.

Galkin K. , The Training of Scientists in the Soviet Union. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959, 187.

While this may still be the prevailing viewpoint, there is a growing body of opinion that the “economic and social” position of Soviet teachers is somewhat overrated. See Brickman W. W. , “Misconceptions about Soviet Education”, The Educational Forum, XXVI, 1, November, 1961.

Galkin , op. cit., 7.

Ibid., 15.

Nearing S. Soviet Education. San Francisco: American Russian Institute, 1959, 24.

Education in the USSR. Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1957, No. 14, 212. See also M. Deineko. Forty Years of Public Education in the USSR. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1957, 90.

For a recent list of the Pedagogical, and Teacher Institutes, see The World of Learning 1960–61. London: Europa Publications, 1961.

George Z. Bereday F. , The Changing Soviet School: The Comparative Education Society Field Study in the USSR. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1960, 7.

The current strength of the Academy approximates 35 full members and 65 corresponding members; candidates for membership are generally nominated by institutions of higher education. Scientific educational research workers or full-time employees of the Academy's various institutes number over 600.

Malyshev M. “The Soviet School Teacher”. Year Book of Education, 1953. New York: World Book Company, 1953, 412.

Brickman W. W. Introduction to the History of International Relations in Higher Education. New York: New York University, preliminary draft, processed, 1960, 17.

The State Lenin Library is the largest in the country and has an extensive variety of pedagogic literature; however, the Ushinsky collection represents a more accessible research point with a greater functional arrangement of material. The Lenin Library has over 21 million titles, and receives annually “one million books, magazines, maps and copies of sheet music and nearly 1,800,000 copies of newspapers”

See Bereday, op. cit., 330–331, for a subject list of major educational journals published in the USSR.

Deineko. Op. cit., 91–92.

For a principal source of Soviet educational information in English see Soviet Education, New York: International Arts and Sciences Press; monthly translation of leading articles from Russian education journals, particularly Sovetskaya Pedagogika