Word: proletariats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...health of that art in 1917; then the slow turning of chaos into the art-propaganda which today dominates Russian esthetics. The time is obviously not yet ripe for piercing criticism. Art in Soviet Russia is still strictly utilitarian, avowedly a tool for spreading Communism, educating the proletariat: ". . . every novel, poem and play can justify itself in the eyes of the Russian workers only if its author can demonstrate that it fits into the general cultural aims of the Soviet Union." These aims are fairly well known. Generally, they are: "... to raise the cultural level of the entire population...
...ruble diplomacy" will have won its outstanding victory thus far, for the Commissioner charged last week nothing less than that Amtorg is a backer, political and financial, of organized Communist agitation in the U. S., that Amtorg in short is helping to foment "the World Revolutions of the World Proletariat." Earlier victories of "ruble diplomacy" include the arrangement whereby - although the Soviet Government is supposed to be too reprehensible to receive diplomatic recognition - the State Department issues permits under which Chairman Bogdanov and his scores of Red employes come and go without hindrance between Moscow and New York. Mr. Whalen...
...certain of the letters. Whether or not the letters are genuine, whether or not the Soviet Government is directly implicated, there is no question that the Third (Communist) Internationale, a world propaganda organization with headquarters in Moscow, is dedicated to the principle of the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" and is in sympathetic touch with Communist organizations in the U. S., whether or not it sends them orders or money...
...placed in charge of a Soviet collective farm in the region of Dalmatov, he had racked his brains to find some way of turning what looked like an unavoidable deficit into a profit. "I wanted to make a g-g-good showing for the glory of the p-p-proletariat!" sobbed Nikolai...
STREET SCENE-Proletariat passion and mirth...