Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Kremlin's white-and-gold St. George Hall, leading deputies of the Supreme Soviet, Russia's rubber-stamp parliament, settled down comfortably while some old friends of Communism spoke of peace. The friends-French, British, Canadian and U.S. emissaries of an organization calling itself the Permanent Committee of Partisans of Peace-were the first foreigners ever to appear before the Supreme Soviet. Their act was part of the current Russian peace offensive, a smokescreen designed to blind the West...
...major objective of the Research Center," Kluckhohn said, "is the study of Russian institutions and behavior in an effort to determine the mainsprings of the international actions and policy of the Soviet Union...
Inkeles' book is designed "to explain the effectiveness of Soviet propaganda." In it, he will try to balance two fundamental facts about Russian mass communication. "On one hand," he thinks, "the Russian system is a well-planned, smoothly-run, and fully-utilized apparatus. But on the other hand, it is not designed with the purpose of facilitating the free flow of ideas among the Russian people...
Naturally, there is considerable difficulty in securing material for study. The Center has not now, and has never had, any contact with the official Russian government, and has had to rely exclusively on printed matter and interviews with former residents of the Soviet Union...
...Center requests the book, transfers it to microfilm when it is received and returns it to the owner. Rare books have come from such places as the Library of Congress, the West coast, New York, and Paris. The Center also subscribes to 180 magazines covering all aspects of Soviet life...