Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Samples: "The Soviet State is the Red Army." -P. F. Yudin. "The Soviet State is the welding of coercion and persuasion."-Andrei Vishinsky. "Socialism is electrification plus Soviet power." -Lenin...
...this was strictly in line with the increasingly intense Soviet campaign to stamp out every trace of Western bourgeois ideas in the Soviet Union. Behind this fantastic effort lay the real dilemma of Soviet philosophy-a contradiction that prevented Communist thinkers from developing any secure philosophy of their...
Orthodox Marxism holds that society operates in accordance with determined economic laws; this view minimizes the personal element in history. However, the Soviet State that has actually evolved is a dictatorship rooted in the principle of infallible personal leadership. This irreconcilable conflict of ideas prevents Soviet thinkers from agreeing on a definition of what the Soviet State is which leaves the philosophers in the position of being ordered to "militantly advance the spirit" of a thing they cannot define...
...year history of the Soviet Union, philosophical quarrels have sometimes had fatal results. Long before he was tried for alleged treason and executed, Nikolai Bukharin had been attacked for philosophical deviation. But Bukharin never recanted. Aleksandrov did, and last week Pravda reported: "Aleksandrov fully agreed with the criticism, acknowledged that his book had serious failures and mistakes, and agreed that the whole organization of a new scientific work in the branch of philosophy should be fundamentally changed...
...hard look at the always meager Soviet crop statistics belied the bright hope. At the present level of rationing, Soviet citizens annually eat 37,152,500 tons of grain. An end of rationing might increase consumption by half as much again. Best estimates put this year's crop at 43,500,000 tons, which would still not be enough for so large an increase...