Abstract
NOT even political prejudice can conceal the fact that the communist Russia to-day represents an immense social experiment of far greater interest and significance in political and social thought than the reversion to autocracies represented by modern Fascism. The success or failure of Communism under the conditions of to-day, whether in the execution of its successive five-year plans, or in the vastly enhanced extent to which the scientific worker has been placed in control, or again in the attempt to make the service motive a driving force comparable with that of the profit motive elsewhere, depends as much on education as on any one factor. In this book we are given a survey of the education system of the U.S.S.R., which should at least assist in judging as to the chances of success.
Changing Man:
the Education System of the U.S.S.R. By Beatrice King. Pp. 319. (London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1936.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Miscellany. Nature 139, 462–463 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139462c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139462c0
