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There was a new interest in the Russian experiment, not unmixed with sober fear. Maurice Hindus’s Humanity Uprooted, which had come out during the month of the panic and had sold very slowly at first, became a best seller during the gloomy autumn of 1930. In the summer of 1929 Russia had seemed as remote as China; in 1931, with bread-lines on the streets, the Russian Five-Year Plan became a topic of anxious American interest. The longer the paralysis of industry lasted—and how it lasted!—the more urgent became the demand for some measure of American economic planning which might prevent such ...more
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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