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...editing," never annoys the politically educated. What Chamberlin (Russia's Iron Age) calls the famine of 1932, Author Strong prefers to characterize as a "grain shortage" attributable largely to kulak sabotage. Soviet women are all equal with men, are found in the front ranks of every enterprise. The Uzbek factory girls celebrate their emancipation in song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Partisan Praise | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Tadjikistan now ranks with the seven other Independent Socialist Soviet Republics: 1) White Russia; 2) The Ukraine; 3) Armenia; 4) Uzbek; 5) Georgia; 6) Azerbaijan; 7) Turcoman. The joker is that all of these "independent republics" are federated with the Moscow Government of "Russia Proper," officially the R. S. F. S. R. or Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. In theory the federal bond can be cast off by any Independent Republic at its sole discretion, but in practice such a step would bring Red Army divisions hot from Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tadjiks Promoted | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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