GOVERNMENT INFLUENCE AND CONTROL OVER EDUCATION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000400390002-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Go ernment Influence and Control over
ducat ion
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. Soviet 1-)nc.r.o educational and technical institutions, special
higher educational institutions (of the merchant fleet) and
scientific research institutes (which handle scientific research
work and also offer higher decrees for scientific workers) are
all federal organizations and as such are under complete govern-
mental control. There a2e no independent educational institutions
;.n the us2a.
2, iigher educational institutions are controlled by the government
in one of two basic ways:
(a)
Government universities and pedagogical institutes are
under the Ministry of Culture of the USSR and the
republics and are administered by the Head Directorate
of Higher Education of that Ministry;
(b) Other institutions are under the various ministries and
are administered by the head directorates of educational
institutions of those ministries.
In both of the above cases the government handles all financial
affairs of the institutions.
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3. Courses of study, admissions and graduations, requirements for
instructors, etc, are all handled by the head directorates of
edudationaI'institutions. These head directorates are in turn
subegainated to the. assistant ministers., The assistant ministers
are obliged to keep the ministers informed on educational affairs
within' the ministry. The ministers, in turn, must report to the
COUncil of Ministers and to the Central Committee on the state of
specialist training in their respective ministries.
4. Other organs which exercise control over higher educational
institutions are the special sections. These sections are under
the local organs of the MVD and corresponding divisions of that
Ministry (secret Code, SpeciaL and first divisions). The main
purpose of these special sections (spetsodel) in education is to
check (sometimes openly and often secretly) on the political
reliability Of the students and staffs of the various institutions.
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5. The third controlling organ of the government is the Party
organization or the Party bureau in charge of which is the secretary
or the Party organizer. Besides directing the political life of
the student bOdy, the Partyloureau meddles in all phases of the
institution's activity, the instruction of the students, the Work
of the instructors and the administration. The leaders of the
Party bureau are independent of the school admiastration:Andare
responsible to the rayon, town and oblast Party committees.-
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6. As far as the young people (17 to 25) among the students are eon-
ceriled, there is still another organ of government supervision
in education, the Komsomol The Komsomols, like the Party
bureaus,' Concern themselves extensively with the Institution's'
affairs. These KOmsoMOIs are diredted by Komsomol organizers.
who are chosen by the, central committee of the VLKSM (All-Union
Lenin Communist Youth Union). These organizers are responsible
on one hand to the Party organization at the institution and on
the other hand to the rayon, town and oblast committees-of the ,
VLKSM. ,Komsomols are, of course, independent of the school
administration.
7. The laSt general organ of'governmental influence in the educational
institutions is the professional union organization. One must
remember, of course, that these unions have absolutely nothing
in common with the independent labor unions found in the Mk. ,
They are 'strictly government organs. In the institutions these
unions exist in every faculty for the purpose of political and
professional indoctrination of the students. The unions are .
directed by union organizer S and general institute union
committees.. The committees are headed by chairmen. The union
organizatiOns are responsible on one hand: to the Party and Komsomol
groups at the institution in question and on the other to the
local oblast or basin professional union committees or councils.
They are also responsible to the central comtittees of branch
professional unions.
8. In the higher technical training institutions of the transporta-
tion industry, (Ministry of the Merchant Fleet and Ministry of
Communication) the government extends its influence by means of
a speciil educational institution section or sector of the
ministry's political directorate.
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