Mid-20th C. Russian Manners

Things are different today and “the time has come to look anew at the outward forms of people's behavior,” he wrote. Training for good manners should start with the first class in school, or better still from the kindergarten, he advised... Russian kindergarteners in the mid-20th century

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Russians Admonished To Improve 

Manners

MOSCOW, Oct. 8 (Reuters)—Russians were told today that the time had come to improve their manners. A long article in the government newspaper Izvestia told them good manners were not just a survival of the Czarist past, but a useful asset in a modern, cultured society.

Recalling how habits had changed after the revolution of 1917, the writer said that in the 1920's a young girl's feelings of equality with men would be offended if her escort offered to help her with her coat.

Things are different today and “the time has come to look anew at the outward forms of people's behavior,” he wrote. Training for good manners should start with the first class in school, or better still from the kindergarten, he advised. — New York Times,1966

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