If Soviet society is to move forward with confidence toward our great goals, each new generation must rise to an ever-higher level of learning and general cultivation, occupational skill and civic activism. One might say that such is the law of societal progress. In the context of the scientific and technological revolution, under a virtual avalanche of information, this law imposes unwontedly high demands on both those who study and those who teach-from rank-and-file classroom teachers to government ministers.

Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affai…

The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem…

Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.

'Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants a…

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we …

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.