On Soviet Themes

Abstract

That the present is but a fleeting moment between the past and the future was never so vividly clear to me as in the five weeks that I spent in Moscow recently. During that time I spoke to many people: to ordinary citizens, the proverbial "man in the street," students, university teachers, scientific workers, and writers, to both members and non-members of the Communist Party.

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