It would appear that in a society which claims to have set its ideology, laws and government on Marxist precepts there should be fertile ground for economic education for both the citizen and the professional alike. Economic determinism in Marxist philosophic propositions and economic determinants of socialist-communist type societies are well known. Taking this ideological and political climate for granted, one would expect that economic education for basic economic literacy should be given prominence in Soviet-type nations. But even a perfunctory examination of Soviet sources, and casual conversations with Soviet citizens show that economic education in the USSR is really quite weak. Do the Soviet schools really teach economics? The answer is not simple. It depends in the first place upon what is meant by "economics." If we postulate that economics is a social science which deals with