We discuss the phenomena Sommer and Sommer (1991) described in regard to teaching psychology at the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute in Estonia, USSR. in 1989. We relate the problems they described with translators, lack of student participation, technical equipment, examinations, and degree requirements to the ideological and economic system prevailing in the Soviet Union at the time.
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