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...birthday present of 15 new plays, five new Soviet films and an elaborate Revolutionary Ballet-all of which played triumphant premieres in Moscow. As they left the theatres the delighted horde of proletarians, soldiers, sailors and peasants rollicked down streets festooned with blazing lamp bulbs. For did not LENIN say: Electrification plus the Soviet Power equals Communism...
...Economic Policy," proclaimed by Lenin on Aug. 9, 1921, was his masterly compromise with Capitalism, both within Russia and without. By restoring the use of money, permitting Russians to buy & sell for what the traffic would bear and letting concessions to foreign capitalists, Nikolai Lenin gave Russia a new lease on economic life. But not in time to avoid the Great Famine. Maxim Gorki appealed for food to Herbert Hoover, then chairman of the American Relief Administration (A. R. A.). It is history that during the desperate famine winter of 1921-22 the A. R. A. fed some...
...Lenin died Jan. 21, 1924 and three quarters of a million Russians braved 30° below zero to march past his corpse. The struggle between Trotsky and Stalin for supremacy began. It raged for four years, during which time numerous features of the NEP were modified and Soviet life became less Capitalistic, more Socialistic. In line with this trend Trotsky & Friends demanded the wiping out of the kulak or rich peasant. Stalin called their doctrines a "Left Heresy." He secured their expulsion from the Communistic Party in December 1927-then, as the new year opened Stalin proceeded to adopt Trotsky...
...Western life but presented in its "universal capacity." Nor should Christianity attack the non-Christian systems of religion; it should understand them, associate itself with their "kindred elements." Christianity's chief argument is not with Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism but with "materialism, secularism, naturalism . . . the philosophies of Marx, Lenin, Russell. The case that must now be stated is the case for any religion...
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