The Twenty-Third Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which convened in 1968, directed that universal secondary education be implemented in 1970. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the difficulties and successes of implementation procedures. Party and State decrees after 1968 necessitated such concomitant changes at all levels of secondary education that implementation was postponed until 1972. Reforms of an administrative-organizational nature were accomplished, but the results of structural and qualitative reforms to the secondary school curriculum have not been successful. This study led to the conclusion that the impact of new secondary programs on the competency of secondary school graduates cannot be fully known until implementation has been completed. (Author/RA)