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...allowed to take the major exams given by the government during June and July. Moreover, even a top grade is no guarantee of admission. Students with some factory or military experience have an edge in the selection; so especially have those with a well-placed friend in the party apparatus...
...COMMUNIST PARTY APPARATUS by Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov. 422 pages. Regnery...
...under Russia's new regime, not everyone will share Avtorkhanov's dark prospect. But whatever his conclusions, he is singularly qualified to examine the anatomy of Communist power. Avtorkhanov is a cured Communist, born 56 years ago in the Chechen region. He rose steadily through the party apparatus until a certain independence of thought -he opposed Stalin's plan to establish kolkhozes, or collective farms, in the non-Russian areas-nominated him for purging. After five years in Siberia, where he was sent without trial, he joined the abortive 1943 Chechen revolt against Communist rule and later...
What worried Wilson was a subtler point in the workings of industrial democracy. Unlike any other major pressure group, the Reds throw into a labor dispute "an efficient and disciplined industrial apparatus," said Wilson, "controlled from Communist Party headquarters." He noted that there was no major strike anywhere in Britain in which this apparatus was not involved, and that the Reds had officers "ready to operate in any situation where industrial troubles are developing." As a result, the Communists often seized the leadership of the strikers from their moderate elements. That, he said, had happened in the seamen...
...mechanical components, have all been tested. In an effort to reduce the weight and complexity of such systems, General Electric space specialists have taken their inspiration from the moon-a natural satellite that manages to keep the same face permanently toward the earth without the aid of any elaborate apparatus...