Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia the movement was started before the Revolution in 1917 and has received and added impetus under the Soviet regime. The cooperative plan has also been found highly useful in Denmark...
...Some time ago, about 30 neolithic settlements were found in China which prove rather conclusively that even in those very early times there was a cultural connection, shown by a comparison and study of the painted ceramics which have been discovered, between China, Southern Russia and the Messopotamian countries. Therefore, although it may be difficult to trace these connections later, we must admit that they existed many centuries before the beginning of the Christian era, possibly as early as 3,000 B. C. The painted ceramics of Northern China are, by the way, about the best which have been found...
...Soviet instruction is based on the three elements, nature study, labor activity, and sociology," said Dr. Lloyd Storr-Best in his talk on Education in Soviet Russia at the Phillips Brooks House last night. Dr. Storr-Best, who has been carrying on investigations in Russia for the British Government, went on to say, "Russian children are taught agriculture and the phenomena of every day natural life in addition to the problems of labor and of their own social relations...
...teaching of elementary sociology is considered the most important of the three chief elements in Soviet education. The communist leaders of Russia believe that their only hope of overcoming the unsocial instincts and personal greed of the peasants is through education. Their general plan of training thus comprises the following stages: first the child must be taken at a very early age and his social instincts fostered, then he is taught some practical science, and finally is given some idea of the theories of socialism...
...study in contrasts is Cecil B. DeMille's "The Volga Boatman," now showing at the Fenway. In this, and in many other respects, the film is typical of De Mille's technique as a director. His scene is Russia in 1917, his theme the strife between the blue-blooded aristocrats and the Russian Reds. It is a film showing all of DeMille's excellences and all his defects. The scenario was written by a Rumanian, Konrad Bercovici, and its original motive is the song of the same name, made famous in this country by the Chauve Souris. Incidently the song...