THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF SOVIET SOCIETY. ARTICLE 2. SOCIAL STUDIES AND MASS PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE POSTWAR YEARS

Abstract

The article deals with sentiments among students and academic community of social studies’ scholars as well as intellectual atmosphere in local societies of the Soviet Union in the 1940 -s - early 1950-s. The author examines the mechanism of influence of social sciences on mass consciousness of the Soviet society

Keywords

• humanities
• social sciences
• soviet ideology
• ideological dictatorship
• intellectual space