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...past year. The books are not merely repositories of facts which must be painfully mastered and reproduced for examinations; they are both interesting for their own sakes and thought provoking. Starting with J. H. Robinson's "The Mind in the Making," they include works by such varied authors as Lenin, Walter Lippman, President Lowell, and John Stuart Mill. For a man in college to cover such a list means to know what some of the keenest minds of the world have thought about the relations between a state and its citizens, and thus to pave the way for intelligent opinions...
...With giant strides we move toward Lenin's aims?Industrialization! Electrification!! MECHANIZATION...
Stalin and Religion. As a matter of course Stalin and every member of the Communist Party accept as gospel Lenin's further dictum: "Religion is opium for the people...
Naturally Stalin assists the International. In his younger days the Dictator exploded bombs, arranged assassinations of Tsarist officials, robbed banks?all this to reduce the number of his Party's enemies, increase the amount of Party funds. Six times he was exiled, six times escaped. Lenin, in recognition of the young man's cold, keen, remorseless efficiency, nicknamed him "Steel...
...raise the cultural level of the entire population and to create the foundations of a Communist culture, as opposed to Capitalist culture." U. S. readers who think vaguely of Tolstoi and Dostoievski as timelessly typical of Russian literature will be disillusioned by this book. When Tolstoi died in 1910. Lenin wrote that "prerevolutionary Russia, with its lack of energy and strength, expressed in the philosophy of a genuine artist, has receded into the past." Roughly, Dostoievski and Tolstoi are as representative of contemporary Russia as are Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper of the U. S. Strange names loom...