Is the Revolution Dead?

FES a a BS ER WEES FESSOR Cee? Sere YY NY SRS JAMES BURNHAM Is the Revolution Dead?

Is the Kremlin’s celebration this month a birthday party or a Mem- orial Service? If the Communist revo- lution is over, dead, kaput, we shall continue to have our problems with Russia, Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia and -Cuba but these will be of the kind familiar over the centuries in international dealings; no dif- ferent essentially from the problems posed by our rela- tions with France, Brazil, Britain, Japan, or Switzer- land. But if the revo- lution, however changed from its in- fant ways, still lives and moves, the traditional rulebook can’t be a suf- ficient guide.

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FES a a BS ER WEES FESSOR Cee? Sere YY NY SRS JAMES BURNHAM Is the Revolution Dead?

Is the Kremlin’s celebration this month a birthday party or a Mem- orial Service? If the Communist revo- lution is over, dead, kaput, we shall continue to have our problems with Russia, Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia and -Cuba but these will be of the kind familiar over the centuries in international dealings; no dif- ferent essentially from the problems posed by our rela- tions with France, Brazil, Britain, Japan, or Switzer- land. But if the revo- lution, however changed from its in- fant ways, still lives and moves, the traditional rulebook can’t be a suf- ficient guide.