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IN Russia finds herself in revolutionary chaos compared with which the shots and terror of were but dramatic episodes. This is the revolution of the Five-Year Plan which is changing the whole life of the country even more than the initial seizing of power by the Bolsheviks fifteen years ago. The aim of this new Communist Party set before it.
These new rulers of Russia, having issued a challenge to the age-old rights of private property, are attempting to build up a State where the good of the community, and not the private profit of the individual, shall be the guiding motive, where classes shall disappear, and where all shall receive according to their needs and give according to their abilities.
Throughout the centuries, philosophers have talked of such a State, but up to their arguments were based upon pure theory. Today, however, the ideas propounded by Socialist thinkers are being put into practice.
How do they work out in real life? It was in quest of an answer to this question that I was permitted to accompany the author of this diary to Russia in the autumn of when the Soviet citizens were in the very thick of the struggle to build up Socialism. It was an experience of tremendous interest and value as a study of a land in the grip of a proletarian revolution. Experiences in Russia A trip to Russia by a Soviet boat may justly kindle the imagination in this hectic year of when that country is the cynosure of the remaining five-sixths of the world.
