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Another unsung Russian genius named Glinkov "considerably forestalled" Briton James Hargreaves in inventing the flaxspinning loom. Dr. N. I. Lunin of Dorpat discovered vitamins. Professor Kataev constructed the world's first electronic television transmitter. In 1801, the self-taught genius of the Urals, Artomonov, built the first bicycle in the world's history, then pedaled the 1,000 miles from Nizhny Tagil to Moscow to prove...
...Ukraine's rich, black soil now produces sugar beets, flax, cotton. Fully 96% of the land is now collectivized. From the Ukraine come some of the Soviet's best-known figures: Alexei Stakhanov, author of the speed-up system, Maria Demchenko, champion sugar-beet raiser, Valentin Kataev, Soviet author. The Ukrainian language, outlawed by the Tsar, is not only now allowed but fostered...
PEACE IS WHERE THE TEMPESTS BLOW -Valentine Kataev-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). The story of two boys who become involved in the 1905 Russian Revolution when they hide a fugitive from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin; by the author of Time, Forward...
...CHAOS - Ilya Ehrenbourg - Holt ($2.50). Another we'd-die-for-the-dear-old-steel-plant novel; of the same order but not nearly as good as Kataev's Time, Forward! (TIME...
...sees Russian letters now as "a mirthless desert waste inhabited by a few sincere fanatics and a horde of unexampled experts in bootlick, blackmail and blatherskite." As victims of this Inquisition he cites the late Sergei Yessenin and Vladimir Maiakovsky (both suicides) ; the conversion of "the mirthful satirist, Valentine Kataev . . . into a faithful Sunday School moralist of the five-year plan"; the groveling recantation of Panteleimon Romanov; the humiliation of Boris Pilnyak, president of the Russian Authors' League, who was forced to save his skin by rewriting a "harmful" book into a "harmless" one; the refusal of Isaac Babyel...