Abstract

Soviet Russia's New Deal

The all-Union Congress of Soviets will meet on November 25 to ratify the new Soviet Constitution, a document which has astonished the Western World. The embassies and foreign offices throughout the world were impressed by the gesture of its publication. It sounded the note of achievement. Those in authority at the Kremlin are today able to announce, in effect, that the immense difficulties of so gigantic a social and economic reconstruction have been overcome. Not stability only, but also success, has been substantially secured. A second impression is that of maturity. The child born in 1917 has come of age and takes an adult place in the world. Development is still proceeding, but it is now the development of an adult, rising toward its prime of power.