This article examines the pedagogical dimension of late-Soviet philosophy and especially such aspects of it as protreptic (as opposed to ideologised propaedeutic) philosophy books (e.g. by Evgeny Bogat), the pedagogical ideas of the Moscow Logical Circle, Evald Ilyenkov's circle, and the philosophical aspects of the communards' movement. The common element of these phenomena was the idea of educating a person capable not of adapting to the existing society, but of improving it in accordance with communist ideals, which were formulated as consonant with world culture, the longing for which acted as a kind of anti-ideological dissidence, soft enough to be accepted within the framework of the brezhnevian doctrine of culturality.
