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THE success of the planned economy of the Soviet Government probably depends as much upon education as upon any other single factor. This lucid but admirable account of what has already been done to provide the State with intelligent citizens, industry with competent workmen and efficient technicians and leaders, indicates the extent to which a population 64 per cent illiterate in 1917 is being converted into a nation capable of enjoying the advantages with which modern technology can endow it, as well as producing the technicians required for the execution of its plans. Prof. Pinkevich's survey of the position of scientific work in the U.S.S.R. reveals unparalleled co-ordination of such effort in the service of the national economy.
Science and Education in the U.S.S.R.
By Prof. A. Pinkevich. (The New Soviet Library, 12.) Pp. 176. (London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1935.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Science and Education in the U.S.S.R.. Nature 136, 8 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136008b0
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