“…Education was used as a measuring tool to categorise the classes, and looking at the foundation of Russia being built on a Marxist-Leninist theoretical background in 1907, it comes as no surprise that, true to the religious background of the country (see the section titled 'External determinants of the Russian education system', in this chapter), the social classes were separated by means of education. According to Andreev (2013), education is directly linked to income, as the state and the economy demand literate and educated workers.…”