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...USSR was forced to alter its 1947-'49 policy of "over hostility" when the West reacted by increasing its military strength, he asserted in a speech at Harkness Commons...
Gerschenkron, who is also active in the Russian Research Committee, considered the new doctrine "an innovation," but emphasized that the Soviets are presently interested in relaxing tensions to combat spiralling inflationary tendencies within the USSR. He added that Marxism was today merely an empty shell within which the Russians develop opportunist policies, and that Khrushchev had definitely refuted Marxist doctrines in several portions of his speech...
During his tour, Malia used Moscow as his central base of operations and traveled from there to the different libraries in Russia and Central Asia. He effected agreements with the two largest libraries in the USSR, the Lenin Library in Moscow (the Soviet equivalent of the Library of Congress), which will now send back issues of PRAVDA to the U.S., and the public library in Leningrad...
...culture, can be imposed on the world. Only in a one-culture world will any language become supra-national of its own accord, and such a situation does not exist today. The Soviet Union is currently waging a successful campaign to teach Russian to every one in the USSR--there are about 100 different languages spoken--but it is accomplishing this only through force...
...agricultural problem is the major structural weakness of the USSR today, the study concludes. Peansants cling to their Jand, while leaders threaten to remove it in order to make Communist theory closer to Soviet practices...