Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have spent this last year working under all the dictators of Europe, except one, and the contrasts of my experiences in Russia and Italy are most interesting. In Italy you have one man and the police facing the entire population, which, beneath the surface is hostile to them, and in Russia all three forces work together...
...Russia is a very easy country to find out about," he said, "as the government authorities are anxious to have you see their experiment. The difficulty lies in the facts themselves, as you will discover so many contrasts in them. The reason is that Russia has a primitive culture; there is much ignorance, drunkenness and superstition. On the other hand the new regime, consisting of a small minority of the population, is trying to infuse life with the most modern problem of politics. It is discouraging when you see what an enormous task the people have set themselves, because they...
Questioned about the Soviet rule in Russia, the European philosopher answered that the Bolshevist regime had come to stay. "Most revolutions are mere retrogressions. There is nothing new under the sun." Explaining this remark he said that for every thing that seems new, startling, and modern today, conditions almost exactly analagous can be discovered by searching back far enough through history...
...claimed that Bolshevism is a new creed, a new method," Count Keyserling said, "but it is not. Communism as understood in Russia is merely collectivism and the Russians are by nature a collective people. I mean they are just the opposite from individualists...
...Standard of N. Y. sees no reason for cutting its own throat by rejecting Russian oil, the U. S. State Department has approved trade with Russia. Standard of N. Y., having no Rumanian oil rights, must buy Russian oil to maintain its position in the Eastern market. Standard will fight Shell...