Research Results on the World Views of Youth

The development of a new human being, the active builder of communist society, the shaping in him of a scientific worldview, of profound ideological conviction, and of a communist attitude toward work has been and remains central to the attention of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In pointing to the immense importance for social life of ideological socialization work with youth, Comrade L. I. Brezhnev, in his speech at the XVIII Congress of the All-Union Leninist Communist League of Youth Komsomol], emphasized that successful solution of the whole range of tasks of communist socialization is associated with "enrichment of people's world within and the development of a correct understanding of the goals and meaning of life." (1)