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He does suggest that the Russian failure to make use of their 1926-27 price level measurements as they claim they are doing leads to many serious distortions. Because of war devastation, and the resulting inflation of the ruble, evaluation of new production has "a substantial upward bias," in the...
"Unsafe Condition." Even the setting was special. To Moscow, the Central Committee summoned a hundred or so top-rank philosophers, professors, theoreticians, for a nine-day conference. Assembled, they learned that the subject of discussion was to be Aleksandrov's History of Western European Philosophy. Only a year before...
The picture is, however, not altogether a thing of sheer wonder. The "hero," for instance, in his attempt to portray a starstruck artisan, wears a stunned, ox-like expression, and looks at all times like a ballet dancer converted for the occasion. In fact, his wooden absorption with creating the...
Despite their docility when it came to voting, in speeches the delegates distributed "Soviet selfcriticism" with a generous hand. Even Finance Minister A. G. Zverev, who presented the budget, was accused of "laxity" and told to "give more attention to finances." Cinema Minister I. G. Bolshakov was blamed for a...
*Officially the ruble is 5.3 to the dollar, but the diplomatic rate of 12 to the dollar is nearer its actual value.