Social and political state of public opinion of scientific and pedagogical intelligentsia in Saratov and Stalingrad after the 20th CPSU congress

The author analyzes the reaction of the faculty members in Stalingrad and Saratov universities on the report of N.S. Khrushchev «On the Personality Cult and its Consequences» at the 20th CPSU Congress. On the basis of archival documents recently available for scientific research, the major questions raised by the teachers at their party conferences are estimated, as including the attitude to Stalin, the causes of the personality cult, and on teaching social sciences disciplines.