Place of the Leningrad society “Knowledge” in the System of Popularization of Scientific Knowledge in the USSR in 1955-1964

Student: Vasileva Elizaveta

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This paper is devoted to study of the place that the Knowledge Society of Leningrad took in the city's scientific life in 1955–1964. The Society was analyzed in this paper as a complex of relationship between the government and the scientific society. Thesis consists of three chapters: in the first one there is analysis of the changes inside the scientific life, in the second one there is analysis of the Society's activities, and in the third one the author analyses the internal view on the Society's activities. One of conclusions of this paper is that the Knowledge Society in the 1960s acts mostly to popularize the scientific knowledge because of the balance between state and scientific society. All of that is proving our hypothesis that the relevance of the Knowledge Society as cultural and educational phenomenon was in it's effeciency as a complex of the relationship between the government and the scientific society.

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