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SEEDS OF TOMORROW - Mikhail Sholokhov-Knopf...
...readers seeking a vivid and imaginative Soviet novelist who could describe the wild and involved battles of civil war without lapsing into melodrama or propaganda found their man last year in Mikhail Sholokhov (And Quiet Flows the Don). In Seeds of Tomorrow Sholokhov has written the story of a collective farm with robust humor, with good-natured mockery at the zeal and pompousness of Communists, with shrewd sympathy for the bewilderment of peasants...
Hero of the on-time completion of Moscow's new subway was until last week Chief Hard-Soil Excavation Engineer Mikhail Ifremov...
...almost doubled in the past two years. Up to last week the Red Army was officially supposed to number only 562,000 troops and the Red defense budget for 1934 was supposed to carry expenditures of 1,665,000,000 rubles ($1,444,000,000). Abruptly and astoundingly Comrade Mikhail Tukachevsky, Vice Commissar for Defense, announced to the Ail-Union Congress that Russia actually spent 5,000,000,000 rubles ($4,348,000,000) last year for defense and has increased her standing Army to 940,000-by far the largest army in the world...
...that Old Bolshevik Mikhail Koltsov, member of Izvestia's Editorial Board, such talk was astounding news. "Not so long ago," he editorialized, "the Communist Party and all Communist organizations persecuted those among Soviet youths who wore clean shirts and neckties, used perfume or face powder, and attended musical shows. . . . Times have changed...