Problems of CommunismDocumentary Studies Section, International Information Administration, 1967 |
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Page 43 - European continent. He shows that German feminism, as elsewhere, was part of the bourgeois liberal movement at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, and that it rose and.
Page 25 - A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
Page 42 - I think that the contradiction between the relations of production and the forces of production in Soviet agriculture is of a fundamental nature and cannot be removed by any patchwork compromises.
Page 5 - In our struggle for the liberation of the Chinese people there are various fronts, among which there are the fronts of the pen and of the gun, the cultural and the military fronts. To defeat the enemy we must rely primarily on the army with guns. But this army alone is not enough ; we must also have a cultural army, which is absolutely indispensable for uniting our own ranks and defeating the enemy.
Page 14 - Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser and subtler; his body will become more harmonized, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above this ridge new peaks will rise.
Page 14 - If the revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment...
Page 88 - The Ukrainians avoided meeting this fate only because there were too many of them and there was no place to which to deport them. Otherwise, he would have deported them also.
Page 79 - Khrushchev told a group of French socialists that "in all ages, the Jews have preferred the artisan trades. . . But if you take the building trades or metallurgy, you can't find a single Jew to my knowledge. They don't like collective work, group discipline, they have always preferred to be dispersed." Le Figaro (Paris), April 9, 1958. JB Salsberg, a former Canadian Communist leader, was told by Khrushchev that "after the liberation of Czernowitz the streets were dirty. When the Jews were asked why...
Page 8 - ... (Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samuel P. Huntington, Political Power: USA/ USSR, New York, Viking Press, 1965, p.