根据列宁组织图书馆事业的各项原则,包括各类型图书馆的广泛图书馆网在苏联已经建成,并正在发展,图书馆服务已覆盖大多数居民。苏联图书馆是意识形态机构、是文化教育机构、也是科学情报机构。其重要社会功能包括:保障宪法授于苏联公民的受教育权,利用文化成果权,休息权和科学、技术与艺术的创作自由;提高苏联人民的政治觉悟并使之真有积极的生活态度,培育其共产主义劳动精神、号定的思想性、苏维埃爱国主义和对资产阶级意识形态的抵制力。苏联图书馆是新的社会主义型图书馆,其全部活动在于配合党和政府培养“精神丰富、道德纯洁、体魄健全,而又均衡发展的、对社会有益的人。” According to the principles of Lenin’s organization of the library cause, an extensive library network including various types of libraries has been established and is under development in the Soviet Union, and the library services have covered most of the inhabitants. The Soviet Union Library is an ideological institution, a cultural and educational institution, and a scientific intelligence agency. Its important social functions include: guaranteeing the right to education granted by the Constitution to citizens of the Soviet Union, using the right of cultural achievement, right of rest and freedom of creation of science, technology and art; raising the political awareness of the Soviet people and making them have a positive attitude toward life and nurturing Its communist working spirit, its ideological nature, its Soviet patriotism and its resistance to bourgeois ideology. The Soviet Union Library is a new type of socialist library. All its activities are to cooperate with the party and the government in cultivating “those with rich spirit, pure morality, perfect physical condition, balanced development and social benefits.”