Abstract

News from Russia

The article discusses some books like "Impressions of Soviet Russia and the Revolutionary World," by John Dewey and "The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities Under the Soviets," by Avrahm Yarmohnsky. In, John Dewey's visit to Soviet Russia he somehow grasped certain essentials that many of the most ardent of the statistics gatherers have missed. He seems, to be sure, somewhat bewildered in his efforts to reconcile his preconceived ideas of what the Revolution was all about with what he actually found, and somewhat contradictory in disclaiming in one place the significance of the economic and industrial changes, and later on attributing the whole success of the widespread application of new educational ideas to the fact that they could give to the economic and industrial phase of social life the central place it actually occupies in present life.