Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Bergson, who visited the Soviet Union this summer for the third time, in order to get some idea of the present economic state, observes that the diet and clothing of the workers are still very poor. A good suit, he points out, costs 1500 rubles, but the average worker makes only 800 rubles a month, the equivalent...
While the gap between American and Russion consumption remains huge, Soviet industry is not so far behind that of the United States. Since 1951, Bergson relates, its output has been increasing at a rate of nine per cent annually, about three times quicker than American growth...
...field of heavy industry, always emphasized in Russia, Khrushchev has continued the trend started in the Stalin regime. Bergson notes that Soviet steel production burgeoned from 4.3 million tons in 1928 to 38.1 tons in 1954. Under the present government, 54.9 million tons of steel were produced last year...
...Vleck, a member of the five-man Harvard team sent to the universities of Moscow and Leningrad in February 1959, praised Soviet work in physics, stating that it had equaled the American level for the past ten years...
Doty, who visited Russia in May 1958 after an invitation from the Academy of Sciences, was impressed by the rapidly rising ability of Soviet scientists. Though he considered them still slightly behind the United States as a scientific nation, he warned that "it is the gradient rather than the level" of study that counts. "Their goals are defined by what the state needs," he pointed out, "and their exhaustive investigations could put them ahead before long...