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Workers’ Paradise Lost — Fifty Years of Soviet Communism: A Balance Sheet, by Eugene Lyons. Funk & Wagnalls, $6.95

The Bolsheviks have now been around for fifty years. In anticipation of this golden jubilee, an American slick magazine sent ten editors and photographers to the USSR to prepare an anniversary issue. All primed by Berlitz, the travelers brought back sensational tidings from their journey, which “totaled more than a year”: If an honest democratic election were held in the Soviet Union today—involving legitimate alternatives, sufficient time and opportunity for their exposure and the assurance that those elected would serve—the Communist Party would win. This is not speculation. It is a conclusion based on on-the-spot observations and interviews.

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Workers’ Paradise Lost — Fifty Years of Soviet Communism: A Balance Sheet, by Eugene Lyons. Funk & Wagnalls, $6.95

The Bolsheviks have now been around for fifty years. In anticipation of this golden jubilee, an American slick magazine sent ten editors and photographers to the USSR to prepare an anniversary issue. All primed by Berlitz, the travelers brought back sensational tidings from their journey, which “totaled more than a year”: If an honest democratic election were held in the Soviet Union today—involving legitimate alternatives, sufficient time and opportunity for their exposure and the assurance that those elected would serve—the Communist Party would win. This is not speculation. It is a conclusion based on on-the-spot observations and interviews.