Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by V-2 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @07:45AM (#22944535)

Obviously all culture, and certainly mass culture in the Soviet bloc was controlled for "proper social message". I don't suppose Romania was more lax in respect to that?

A movie cheering for, or even trivializing anti-social behaviors would find it difficult to go past censorship (not to mention - to be conceived in the first place...)

It's for the same reason that you'd be hard-pressed to find a pre-1989 Central/Eastern European movie depicting any subcultures (like punks or hippies) sympathetically.

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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by new2628 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:27PM (#22948640)

Yes, that's a good point, and it was a positive side-effect of Soviet times that intellectual pursuits were valued/supported, especially those that were "pure" enough (math, chess, etc.) to be harmless to the regime.

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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by Koshkin on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @12:00PM (#22946979)

In the West the mass culture is also controlled in some way (for political correctness).

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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by V-2 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @12:59PM (#22947665)

You're correct, but anti-intellectualism (as defined for the context of this thread) doesn't belong to its targets.

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