ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES UNDER THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CPSU: AN INTANGIBLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE FORMATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

Abstract

The article, based on the materials of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, examines the activities of the Academy of Social Sciences (AON) of the CPSU Central Committee, an educational organization that was at the center of the system of party training in the USSR after the Great Patriotic War, which had a number of privileges and at the same time helped to critically understand reality. The greatest privilege of professors and graduate students at the AON of the CPSU Central Committee was the ability to access information of a classified nature and to participate in international exchanges. These two sides of the Academy's activity are considered in the article. The author concludes that in the conditions of the post-war development © Иларионова Т. С., 2023 17 ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ ИЗУЧЕНИЯ НЕМАТЕРИАЛЬНОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ of the USSR was significantly expanded circle of people who had an idea of the socialist reality and the international situation and contributed to the change of mindsets in the Soviet society