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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polish surveys of 1958 and 1961 showed also a rise in the acceptance of some form of socialism--a socialism, however, which tended implicitly to be identified with certain economic and social welfare programs associated with Western social democracy (state ownership of industry, free medical care). Much less evident was an identification of socialism, as actual economic and social programs, with Marxism-Leninism; rather, Marxism-Leninism was identified with ideology. Yugoslav surveys in 1960 and 1965 indicate that in each case about three-fourths of the sample ex- pressed a "completely positive or partly positive attitude towards the fundamental elements...

Author: By Richard Cornell, | Title: Students Won't Adopt Communist Values | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...regimes want acceptance of party policies, and commitments to carrying them out. The Polish surveys, as well as other evidence, however, show that young people are increasingly less committed to sacrificial, revolutionary programs. Sixty-eight percent of the 1958 survey respondents said they did not think one should risk one's life for a social ideology. Young people appear by no means inspired to support grand schemes for construction of radically new societies. Their real concern is for more opportunity for self-expression, for the satisfaction of personal goals and wants...

Author: By Richard Cornell, | Title: Students Won't Adopt Communist Values | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

That expression of student attitudes which most reflects the failure of the communist regimes to show any real progress in building the "new socalist man" is the student aversion to becoming "involved"--ideologically, politically, or socially. This came out quite clearly in the Polish surveys in 1958 and 1961. The reported frequency of political discussions among students, for example, decreased markedly between 1958 and 1961. At the same time there was a rise from 30 to 40 percent of the sample who, in assessing students' attitudes toward socialism, considered "those who do not care about it" as constituting the prevalent...

Author: By Richard Cornell, | Title: Students Won't Adopt Communist Values | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

There is also evidence of a generational conflict. Polish sources have admitted a strong feeling on the part of youth blaming the older generation for the war and the accompanying destruction, for the misery and unemployment, for the fear of a new war, for "senseless iron curtains and boundary barriers," and for unsettled racial conflicts. In the Soviet Union, the more sophisticated students are critical of the older generation for having been involved in, or permitted, the Stalinist excesses. More deeply, the young people are tired of hearing from the older generation about how hard they sacrificed in order...

Author: By Richard Cornell, | Title: Students Won't Adopt Communist Values | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...most recent overt demonstrations of student political views have taken place in Poland. Demonstrations were organized in Warsaw University in the spring of 1964 in support of the thirty-four Polish intellectuals who had written an open letter to the Polish Prime Minister, Josef Cyrankiewicz, demanding a more open cultural policy. In October 1966, fourteenS...

Author: By Richard Cornell, | Title: Students Won't Adopt Communist Values | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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