Social and political factors in the USSR and conditions of the Soviet pedagogical science in the second part of the 20th actualized the development of the pedagogical problem of readiness of the students for multicultural communication.

Abstract

The article is devoted to analyze of internal and external factors which made the pedagogical problem of students’ readiness for multicultural communication topical in the USSR in the second part of the 20th century. The author uses cultural-historical and civilizational approaches for a detailed analysis of external and internal factors actualized the development of pedagogical problem of readiness of students to multicultural communication in the Soviet Union during the second half of the XX century. The results are summarized in a table which illustrates the relationship of factors in different aspects. The table makes possible to track predictors of socio-cultural problem (the problem of readiness for multicultural communication) resulting pedagogical problem (the problem of students’ readiness for multicultural communication).