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Double Purpose. While most Western specialists were happy to have a Russian confirmation of their suspicions, Harvard's Professor Abram Bergson did not think Strumilin went far enough and called his calculations "dubious." A new set of production tables compiled by the Rand Corp. show that from 1928 to 1956 the Soviet economy grew by 633%, or less than half as much as even Strumilin's revised figure...
Nietzsche's superman was one of his first ideals; Henri Bergson's matter-mastering Life Force was his first philosophy, followed by bouts with Buddhism and Leninism. Though he sometimes sounded like an atheist and proclaimed that man creates God in his own image, Kazantzakis was agonized by the struggle for faith and haunted by the figure of Christ. His 1948 novel, The Greek Passion-in which a group of villagers with roles in a passion play are forced to act out their roles in real life-movingly restated the old idea that if Christ returned to earth...
...Bridge. Kazantzakis' basic notion that man creates God in his own evolving image-the theory that God is essentially the search for God-may appeal to humanists and troubled skeptics, will antagonize the religious. Philosophically, the Greek writer's twin deities were Bergson (with whom he studied) and Nietzsche. From Bergson he borrowed the idea of an ever upward-rushing elan vital or life force; from Nietzsche he took the belief that "man is a bridge and not an end," and that his task is to surpass himself. Saviors of God is couched in the form and style...
...field of heavy industry, always emphasized in Russia, Khrushchev has continued the trend started in the Stalin regime. Bergson notes that Soviet steel production burgeoned from 4.3 million tons in 1928 to 38.1 tons in 1954. Under the present government, 54.9 million tons of steel were produced last year...
...What causes Russians most discomfort is housing," according to Bergson. The average city-dweller has a living space of only six square meters. Here, too, however, progress is being made. "On the way to Moscow's Vnukova airport," Bergson reports, "I saw more housing than I've ever seen in my life...