It is quite obvious that the study of the psychology of personality and the characteristics of group, collective and mass behavior and communication can and should be considered in all these areas of social practice.

[9]The center of attention of the science of social psychology and its highest value was proclaimed a human as a person, with all the wealth of his relationships with other people, understood beyond the declared ideological attitudes, patterns and political dogmas.

"[12] In 1967, on the basis of published books, at a session of the academic council of the faculty of philosophy of LSU, B. D. Parygin defended the first in the USSR doctoral dissertation on social psychology.

For such real groups, methods of diagnosis, prediction and regulation of the Bsocio-psychological "climate", were developed, which earned good reputation in Soviet Russia (Parygin 1981, 1986).

We know translations of the book into Czech, Bulgarian, Spanish and Portuguese; re-editions were made in Czechoslovakia (Prague, 1968), Bulgaria (Sofia, 1968), Uruguay (Montevideo, 1967) and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, 1972).