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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provinces and national regions at the end of their session, they are a part of the vast official, governmental, administrative and bureaucratic apparatus that translates policy to the 170,126,000. Their Presidium of 37 members elected at a joint session is theoretically the highest executive organ of State power, the interpreter of laws, donor of decorations, holder of the right of pardon. They form into the body of soviet law measures initiated, approved, determined by the Communist Party-though Party decrees are theoretically binding only on Party members. They are the shadow of the Party, moving when the Party...
Party. The 547 deputies who are now between 30 and 40 were in their teens or younger when the Bolsheviks grabbed power. On the eve of a session of the Congress of Soviets the Bolsheviks seized telegraph, telephone and other Government offices. The Congress then met, not in the Kremlin, but in what had been a girl's finishing school; on the night of Nov. 6, 1917, a few hours before it was to be called to order, a short, baldheaded, tireless revolutionary named Lenin stepped out of hiding before the delegates, stilled their applause, said laconically, "Comrades...
Small compared to the quantitative increase in U. S. productive capacity in 1920-29, the Five-Year Plans represented a greater rate of increase. They doubled Russia's industrial stature, made her an industrial power, left her self-sufficient in production of oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, cellulose, cotton, super phosphates. But it set a vast segment of the Russian proletariat moving from factory to factory, from village to city, in one of the great tidal movements of humanity that Tolstoy long ago described as the ceaseless wanderings of workmen over the earth. It ended uniform wages. Breakdowns, delays...
Promising less, the Second Five-Year Plan visualized more modest gains: 178 new coal mines, 107 rolling mills, 93 oil cracking plants, 15 cotton mills, 21 shoe factories, eleven silk mills, along with a big extension of rolling stock, locomotives, tractors, power plants. Although it called for an 18.5% increase in consumer goods, ration cards were not abolished until 1935. Production of automobiles and trucks, in a country which has only 600,000, climbed slowly from 49,750 in 1933, to 199,315 in 1937. Production of shoes, in a country which produces one pair a year per person, declined...
Twentieth Century-Fox's ebullient Darryl Zanuck characteristically promised "at least five" $2,000,000 pictures: The Rains Came, with Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy, George Brent; Stanley and Livingstone; Little Old New York with Alice Faye; Brigham Young; Drums Along the Mohawk. Shirley Temple will do Lady Jane in Technicolor...