Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East, particularly in the field of heavy construction, where the West Germans previously had a clear lead. Last December, despite the fact that West German experts were the first to make technical studies of the proposed Aswan High Dam, Nasser's United Arab Republic, in accepting Russian financial help, pledged itself to give Russia exclusively the first five years' construction work. This month Russia grabbed off 20 choice, long-term industrial projects in Iraq...
...quality of 30 locomotives which Nasser bought from Communist Hungary two years ago, partly by agreeing to accept some of the price in cotton instead of cash, West Germany's Henschel Works fortnight ago snatched an Egyptian State Railways order for 108 diesel-electric locomotives away from both Russian and U.S. bidders. And in the Ruhr several major industrial firms are mulling over plans for a "Mideast pool" which would merge their commercial influence and intelligence services in a single network of "contact offices." Aware that such devices make West Germany best able of all Western nations to match...
Hard-Working Parrots. But the flaws in the Russian system are huge. Dogma is injected into almost all subjects. Teachers may be scholars, but they are expected to follow rigid syllabuses, have far less freedom to interpret their subjects than U.S. instructors. Rote learning, abhorred by some U.S. educators, is carried to extremes. Class discussion, perhaps overemphasized in the U.S., is absent in Russia, and students are not encouraged to think beyond lines laid down by teachers. Cramming for exams swallows a large proportion of the students' time, and since questions are drawn by lot from lists circulated weeks...
BETWEEN now and 1970, predicted Nikita Khrushchev recently, the Soviet Union will catch and then pass the U.S. as the world's foremost economic power. Russian output will race ahead, he said, at the rate of 8.6% annually; the U.S. is poking along at less than 2%. Khrushchev's brassy boast is open to doubt: the U.S. puts out accurate figures, but no one can vouch for the Russian "percentages." The real question is whether the U.S. is growing fast enough, not just to stay ahead of Russia, but for its own economic wellbeing...
There is an occasional small masterpiece like Mihail Prishvin's His First Point, a wonderfully funny dog story, but most of the tales have the upbeat endings and moral preachments common to slick magazine fiction in the U.S. At their best, the stories are filled with the continuing Russian love of the vast land: there are hard gallops through Caucasian meadows, hunters' frosty dawns, quiet hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein...