Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech last night at the Union, Basil Dean, the visiting English theatrical producer, touched briefly on the constantly recurring cycles of the drama; he explained the new movement, especially that of Soviet Russia; and closed by a review of the defects and merits of the present theatre organization, both here and in England...
Under the Soviet regime, the drama in Russia takes the form of travelling companies who perform at industrial plants during the hours of recreation. Amateurs, in the form of local workers supplement the efforts of the actors, and though this form of drama probably has little literary significance, it is said to be immensely emotional and very effective...
Education, under the direction of Soviet Commisar Lunacharsky, is proceeding with a heavy emphasis upon Marxian doctrines. An attempt to bring students face to face with "reality" is hailed by the Bolsheviki as tending to fit pupils for the rugged highway of life. The former propertied class who have young children in school, complain that the seeds of a godless irresponsibility are being sown...
Religious conditions in Russia are the best example of the impotency of an absolute dictatorship to strike at the root-feelings of humanity. The heads of the Soviet Government, admitted atheists, have made a determined assault upon the Orthodox Church by suppressive measures and by launching the rival "laving Church." The great mass of the peasantry have quietly gone on worshipping in the same way as before. Now the Government has surrendered to the ex tent of adopting a laissez-faire policy toward religion. In this, as in countless other ways, the stabilizing weight of the great mass...
...Japanese Government continues to seek means of excluding undesirable Russians without withdrawing the recognition which it granted to the Soviet...