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RUSSIA The Congress of the Supreme Council of Soviets meets in a vast gold & marble room of the Kremlin that once held the throne of the Tsar. This week it meets again. Reorganized under the Constitution of 1936, this is its third meeting in its present form, its eleventh since its organization in 1922. If this meeting makes more news than its predecessors, it will be, not because of its deliberations, but because it is addressed by Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin...
Government. Soviets in Russia perform administrative functions roughly comparable to those of municipal councils, State legislatures, Congress, in the U. S. Originally committees formed in factories and towns when the Tsar's authority broke down, there are now 70,000 of them to whom delegates, not always Communist Party members, are elected by secret ballot in direct elections, but from candidates selected by the Communist Party. Over local Soviets are Soviets of townships, over them Soviets of regions, over them Soviets of the twelve national districts, nine "autonomous regions," 22 "autonomous republics" and eleven "constituent republics" into which...
...Russia before the Revolution. There were only 1,500,000 more after ten years of Soviet rule. But as the First Five-Year Plan gave way to the Second, the Second, less publicized, to the Third, as Stalingrad grew on the Volga, Sverdlovsk on the site of the Tsar's execution, industrial life moved as swiftly as the political life of the State. The 37,000 plants that were nationalized by the end of 1920-two-thirds of them employing fewer than 15 men each-gave way to 61,000 large-scale, State-owned, State-operated industries. The industrial...
...Tsar to Lenin," a documentary film tracing Russia's history through the World War and the 1917 Revolution and edited and commented on by Max Eastman, will be presented tomorrow evening at 8 oclock in the New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Harvard Socialist League...
Eastman and Herman Axelbank spent 13 years assembling movie shots made by newsreel men, Red and White propaganda films, and pictures taken by amateur photographers including Tsar Nicholas II himself. The producers of the film have attempted to counteract the effects of official Soviet films which have been accused of minimizing the role played by Leon Trotsky in the Revolution...