Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At the first stage it is possible for a candidate to be personally known to a majority of the electors. At higher stages the reputation of the candidate is increasingly if not entirely his press, radio and cinema reputation. In the Soviet Union the press, the radio and the cinema...
Article 56. Now that 20 years have rolled over the Russian Revolution-a full generation during which the Soviet Union has been governed by leaders not one of whom openly believes in God or is a professing Christian-the problem of religion seemed until recently to Soviet editors to have...
In Georgia, the republic from which the Dictator comes, the Orthodox clergy promptly pressed their advantage under the new Constitution by opening a public campaign demanding that divine service be resumed in all church structures in Georgia which have not yet actually been destroyed. The Orthodox bishops, priests and delegates...
Membership in the anti-religious Soviet League of Militant Godless has declined, according to official Soviet statistics last week, from over 5,000,000 to under 2,000,000-this being doubtless due in part to a widespread impression that religion in Russia was just about dead, until the election...
Uprose in Moscow to settle this point famed Andrei Vishinsky, the Soviet prosecutor in countless "Propaganda Trials" (TIME, April 24, 1933 et seq.). Technically it is not Vishinsky, State Public Prosecutor, who interprets the Constitution or the laws, but years of Soviet press, radio and cinema propaganda have made his...