Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Voters. He might have been struck by the full meaning of the revolution: the substitution of one privileged class for another; for, today, in Communist Russia the workers are the aristocracy, and the former aristocracy and the bourgeoisie rank even lower than did the workers under the Tsars-they do not count at all. Only workers & peasants over the age of 18 can vote...
OPINIONS. Conditions in Russia, veiled as they are by propaganda, and obscured by partisanship, may well be compared to the next world: one side has it that Soviet Russia is an earthly paradise; the other, that it is quite the reverse. Here are opinions...
...Masses: ". . . the last ten years in Russia appear almost miraculous. . . . Millions of workers and farmers the world over look upon the Soviet Union as the advance guard in the emancipation of the mass of mankind from the exploitation of capitalism...
...Nation: "Ten years ago something new was born into the world: . . . Soviet Russia, still hated and feared by the West, is enthusiastically celebrating its tenth birthday. . . . Soviet Russia has become a land of hope, a country where millions of men and women feel a new intensity in the dull business of living . . . women have a freedom exceeding even that of America and Scandinavia; children have a primary consideration unknown elsewhere; and the whole machinery of the State is directed .toward raising the standards of living of the millions. No government in history has set out so deliberately and so successfully...
...ALEXANDER KEREN SKY, onetime Provisional Head of Russia, in his book, The Catastrophe...