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...rest of Europe, with a population of 154 millions, is a market no country can afford to ignore. Fascist Italy has granted official recognition of the Soviet. Last week while U. S. businessmen agitated for Soviet recognition (see p. 13) Isador Liubimov, Assistant Commissar of the Soviet Commissariat for Foreign Trade, was formally wined and dined in Rome, after which he and representatives of the Fascist government signed an agreement whereby Russia will buy $10,000,000 worth of Italian manufactured goods before July 1, 1931: $2,500,060 to be spent on ships; $7,000,000 on airplanes, machinery...
Understanding of Russian industry is dependent upon realization that Russian industry is thoroughly nationalized. The Supreme Economic Council appoints for each branch of industry a Commissariat, who receives a subsidy for the promotion of the business over which he rules. Both buying and selling is done not by individuals but by cooperatives. Co-operatives in Russia do not mean organizations of all members of the same trade. They are organizations of all trades in the same community. Thus a producer's cooperative in a given community would include steel men, grain men, textile men; would handle all the production...
Hegira. With a commissariat of five tons of beef, one ton of jelly, 1,200 Ibs. of cookies, 1,200 gallons of assorted pickles, the Antarctic expedition is comparable to an army on the march. Accompanied by business managers, physicians, cameramen, dog trainers, scientists, aviators, newspapermen, the size and diversity of its personnel suggests a circus...
Number Six on the Boulevard Sreten-sky in Moscow is the People's Commissariat for Education. There excited Russians are awaiting this week the coming of a great U. S. citizen who is chiefly famed on other Continents?John Dewey...
...news of his impending visit had elicited from Soviet Commissar of Education Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky a formal invitation and an expression of enthusiasm that the Second Confucius was coming. Comrade Lunacharsky is a Red, but he knows his Deweys. A dynamo of energy, he not only directs the Commissariat (Ministry) for Education, but writes plays, is President of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers & Composers, and acts as supervising editor of three Moscow publications: Novy Mir (The New World), Krestyanka (The Peasant Woman), and Iskusstvo Trudyaschimsya (Art for the Workers). Lastly Comrade Lunacharsky is Director of the Institute of Archaeology...