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From International Socialism (1st series), No.5, Summer 1961, p.32.
Thanks to Ted Crawford & the late Will Fancy.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
The Future is Ours, Comrade
Joseph Novak
The Bodley Head. 21s.
The author – who writes under a pseudonym – spent some time in the Soviet Union during the period following Stalin’s death, living with Russian families. He is not concerned with politics or sociology but, he says, with individuals and this is the account of conversations he had with people he met there and of his own impressions. Some of it is quite interesting but on the whole there is little that anyone interested in the Soviet Union would not already know or could not gather for themselves. His conclusion is that Soviet Man is a grey, drab creature with ‘dandruff on his collar’, stifled by a crushing regime and a crushing ideology. My conclusion is that all this is a bit vague and insubstantial and that Englishmen also have dandruff on their collars.
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