A Concise History of the Russian Revolution, Richard Pipes,
The Russian Language has two words for education: Образования (obrozovanie), which means "instruction," and Воспитание (vospitanie), which means "upbringing." The first refers to the transmission of knowledge; the second to the molding of personality. The entire Soviet regime dedicated itself to vospitanie in the sense that all the institutions of the state, whether trade unions or the Red Army, had the mission of inculcating in the citizenry the spirit of communism and creating a new type of human being - so much so that to some contemporaries Soviet Russia appeared like one gigantic school.