Builders or Destroyers

Builders of Emerging Nations, by Vera Micheles Dean. Rinehart and Winston, $5.00.

Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean, author of Builders of Emerging Nations, has been an oracle of the Foreign Policy Association for many years. On April 15, 1937, for example, she pictured the Soviet Union as a place “where only two classes—workers and peasants—live amicably side by side” and where “there is room for only one party, the Communist party, ‘which boldly defends the interests of workers and peasants to the very end.’ “In her explanation of “The New Constitution of the U.S.S.R.,” Mrs. Dean related that Soviet elections would take place “on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage,” and “by secret ballot.” She took the document seriously. Leon Trotsky, himself a Marxist-Leninist, was presented as the sole dissenter.

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Builders of Emerging Nations, by Vera Micheles Dean. Rinehart and Winston, $5.00.

Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean, author of Builders of Emerging Nations, has been an oracle of the Foreign Policy Association for many years. On April 15, 1937, for example, she pictured the Soviet Union as a place “where only two classes—workers and peasants—live amicably side by side” and where “there is room for only one party, the Communist party, ‘which boldly defends the interests of workers and peasants to the very end.’ “In her explanation of “The New Constitution of the U.S.S.R.,” Mrs. Dean related that Soviet elections would take place “on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage,” and “by secret ballot.” She took the document seriously. Leon Trotsky, himself a Marxist-Leninist, was presented as the sole dissenter.