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Adam B. Ulam, associate professor of Government, and Martin E. Malia, assistant professor of History, both said that the speech made no fundamental change in Marxian doctrine. Both mentioned that Marx, late in life, envisaged peaceful means of achieving the classless society. Malia emphasized that this was merely another attempt at neutralizing Western Europe and disrupting the NATO alliance. Ulam noted that the new doctrine implied no willingness to make genuine concessions to the West...
During his tour, Malia used Moscow as his central base of operations and traveled from there to the different libraries in Russia and Central Asia. He effected agreements with the two largest libraries in the USSR, the Lenin Library in Moscow (the Soviet equivalent of the Library of Congress), which will now send back issues of PRAVDA to the U.S., and the public library in Leningrad...
...Malia also made agreements with the university libraries of Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Tashkent to exchange academic journals of colleges in both countries. The libraries of Central academies of science in Moscow and Leningrad are now ready to send catalogues of their entire output to this country. All these agreements went into effect on Jan. 1 of this year...
...several visits to Russian universities, Malia observed "strict regimentation of the students." The standard of technical competence that they have to achieve is very high," Malia said, "but they are not encouraged to think things out by themselves. They seemed bored by the Marxist doctrine that they have to adhere to so rigorously...
...Malia felt that the Russian people "are charming, pleasant to meet, and interested to learn more about the West." Malia met Khrushchev and Bulganin at a cocktail party at the Kremlin. His impressions of the two leaders were that "Bulganin seemed bored and socially shy, while Khrushchev was vulgar and superficially exhuberant...