Creating a Perfect Citizen for a Perfect Country

Did the Soviets dream of engineering a new kind of human? They were trying to build a perfect country, so maybe also create a perfect citizen for it? A new type of man...A Soviet Man! Dive into the fascinating, and sometimes disturbing, world of communist education and social engineering in the USSR. This video explores how Soviet authorities attempted to mold their citizens into the ideal "Homo Sovieticus," perfectly suited for their communist utopia.

00:00 - Introduction
03:10 - Why was it necessary to create a new man?
07:34 - What was the USSR criticized for?
11:58 - So...what was this Soviet man like?

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Some additional articles and sources for those interested:
https://arzamas.academy/materials/1499 (in Russian)
https://www.economist.com/briefing/20...
Krasovitskaya T. Y. Russian education between reformism and revolutionarism. February 1917-1920. - М., 2002. ISBN 5-8055-0091-4
Molostova E.S. MODELS OF THE “NEW HUMAN” IN SOVIET TIME: TRAITS OF TRANS-HUMANISM. Nauchnye Vedomosti, Series: Philosophy. Sociology. Law. 175 2014. № 9 (180). Issue 28
https://lenta.ru/articles/2016/04/06/... (in Russian)
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3454472 (in Russian)
https://rodina-history.ru/2016/11/17/... (in Russian)
Fedosov E.A. “Soviet man: propaganda or reality?”. Rusin, no. 4 (38), 2014, pp. 139-151.
https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2015/07... (in Russian)


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Hey there. Somehow you found my video and decided to watch it. So let me introduce myself. I'm Sergei and I'm from Russia. My channel is about my native country. I want to tell English-speaking viewers about the real Russia, about its past and present. Unfortunately, you can find a lot of propaganda about Russia on the Internet, both from the Russian media and from the Western ones. I want to tell you about Russia, as it really is, the country in which I was born, grew up, and lived all my life.


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