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...country never knew such a harvest as that of 1933!" exulted the Dictator's official Moscow newsorgan Izvestia last week. Russians safely harvested, according to Izvestia, more grain than in any previous year in Soviet or Tsarist times, a grand and overflowing total of 89,800,000 metric tons (3,323,000.000 bushels). In wheat, again according to Izvestia, Russian production was nearly double that of the U. S. in 1933 and almost equal to the 1915 U. S. wheat bumper of bumpers...
...last two years, has been the outstanding theatrical attraction of Soviet Russia. Unlike most recent Russian literary works, Fear, though written by a proletarian, is not Soviet propaganda. It aims to show the miseries of the proletariat under Soviet rule, to make a case for the survivors of the Tsarist aristocracy. Its hero, Ivan Ilich Borodin, scientific director of the Institute of Physiological Stimuli, is patently patterned after Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1904. At first Fear was banned by Soviet authorities as counterrevolutionary. Later its production was permitted as part...
...Looking rather embarrassed, according to Duranty, Stalin replied, "Some of my comrades gave it to me in 1911 or maybe 1910. They seemed to think it suited me. You understand we 'underground' [i. e. terrorist] workers used such nicknames because we always had to hide from the Tsarist police...
Bespectacled Chartmaker Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was born in Russia 45 years ago. His studies of violence have not been entirely academic. He was imprisoned thrice under the Tsarist regime for radicalism, thrice by the Bolshevists for conservatism. Sentenced to death, he was awaiting execution when the Communist Government relented, chased him out in 1922. Next year he came to the U. S., taught at the University of Minnesota, was naturalized in 1930, is now head of Harvard's Sociology Department. Chartmaker Nikolai Nikolaevich Golovine, 58, distinguished World War historian, was once a general staff officer of the Imperial Army...
...first moving picture of her ever made. "Where is America?" she asked the picture maker. "I only know it is beyond the ocean." This was at Tiflis, where, as every Rus sian knows, the Dictator's mother lives in two rooms of the Palace of the former Tsarist Governor of Georgia, now a Soviet Republic (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Questing on to find Josef Stalin's birthplace in near by Gori, Camerawoman Margaret Bourke-White was shown a hole in the ground. In this hole, commodious enough once one walks in, still lives Stalin's great-aunt...