Soviet Russia: "Let's try to understand"

              SOVIET RUSSIA Let's try to understand
Russia, more than any other nation of Europe, holds the fate of the coming years.—Theodore Roosevelt.


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ETHAN COLTON, A. B., LL.D. authority on Soviet Russia, author of The XYZ of Communism, and lecturer on current Russian conditions


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LECTURES
Season 1932-1933

1.
—In and Out of Soviet Russia since 1918
2.
—Communist Ideas—How Are They Working Out?
3.
—Why There is No God in the Communist's World
4.
—Is the Soviet Union Heading for Peace or War?

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SOVIET RUSSIA Let's try to understand

One way of getting around



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Dr. Colton's Relief unit, with 7,250,000 nourishing dinners and tons of clothing, worked changes like this among the students.



LECTURE I
IN AND OUT OF SOVIET RUSSIA SINCE 1918
IN August, 1932, Ethan Colton made his eighth return from Soviet Russia.  He has traveled by sledges, Grand Ducal private car, plain box cars, automobiles, and river boats.

Ethan Colton first saw Russia in Revolution with power passing to the Soviets.  In one town he saw the government change hands three times in a single day.  He was right there as Chief of the American Welfare Service in the Russian Army.  He and his more than 100 associates operated from the German front to the Pacific, and from within the Arctic Circle to the Persian border.

A little later came the great famine and found Dr. Colton on the ground working in liaison with the A.R.A. (American Relief Administration) as the Director of

The American Relief Administration made this difference for millions of young children by cooking American food in Ara kitchens and feeding them as shown below.


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 Relief to the Russian students, professors, scientists, writers, and artists with funds provided by the students and professors of the American colleges, also by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. National Councils, and the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.  When people are starving it's no time to argue political faiths.  At least that's the way America felt about it as she hurried men and supplies to the hunger scene, and saved as many lives as populate all of Massachusetts, Michigan and Texas.

His jobs have thrown Ethan Colton into contact with more significant people than there is space (or facility at spelling) to name.  Among them were Mr. Hoover, of course, head of the A. R. A., General Haskell and his effective corps.  And Russians — Red, White and apolitical — Lenin, the Patriarch Tikhon, Kropotkin, the Tolstoys, Pavlov, and the now outcast Trotzky.

Dr. Colton has been in constant touch ever since with the Soviet press and documents, and other official sources of information.  On his latest trip, from which he returned last August, he was able to get such a picture of present conditions in Soviet Russia as few men have background to see, or seeing, to interpret.


Dr. Colton renders a useful service to truth and fairness.
—The Student World




LECTURE II
COMMUNIST IDEAS — HOW ARE THEY WORKING OUT?
HOW TYPICAL ARE THESE PICTURES?
DR. COLTON will answer not as a propagandist for or against the daring Communist adventure.  He aims to give you facts in a spirit of impartial inquiry.

We've been emotional about Russia quite a while now, says Ethan Colton, with the good humor that

Two experiments — a State Grain Farm and a girl taming a tractor


Grown-ups learn laboriously to write—


— children learn young about tools and machinery.


A bit of the Dnieprostroy—Soviet Russia's proudest construction achievement


Parked for the day in a model Soviet nursery

always takes the formality out of his lectures and makes his audiences feel as if they were sitting in on a fireside discussion.  Now let's take in a few facts.

Is the Five Year Plan a failure?

Dr. Colton takes up the Soviet plans for agriculture, industry, education, and shows what progress has been made toward the goals set.

Is the workingman better off under Communism?  Happier?

Dr. Colton takes you into the worker's home.  You see the kind of house he lives in, the food he eats, and the clothes he wears.  You see more — the food for his mind and spirit furnished by a Communist system.


Mr. Colton's is the impartiality of the practical man.—
London Times Literary Supplement in reviewing The XYZ of Communism

The photographs on this page were furnished by The Soyuzphoto, Moscow, U.S.S.R.





PAPA WITH MAMMA


The Church in the Service of Capital.

The highest Churchmen of Europe are Stockholders in Munition Plants. (Translation of above)



SOVIET EDUCATIONAL POSTERS

The Red Front Challenges the World's Bankers and Stockbrokers.




LECTURE III
WHY THERE IS NO GOD IN THE COMMUNIST'S WORLD
Is it because the Russian Church helped oppress the masses under the Czar?

Because Lenin was an atheist?

Because Karl Marx said Religion is the opium of the people?

There is an answer, but not as simple an answer as questions like these imply, Ethan Colton explains.

He deals with some little known facts about the Soviet leaders' stand against all forms of religion.

If Communism becomes world-wide, will all churches have to go? Dr. Colton will tell you how central the anti-religious principle is in Communist doctrine.



LECTURE IV
IS SOVIET RUSSIA HEADING FOR PEACE OR WAR?
Is Soviet Russia working for world peace?  At Geneva, Litvinov more than once has asked the nations to disarm completely.

Is the Soviet Union preparing for war?  If not, why are the children being trained to use rifles and gas masks?

The facts are conflicting, admits Dr. Colton.  Can they be reconciled?  You'll have a clearer picture of the whole situation when you have heard Dr. Colton, and he has answered your questions (which are always invited).

It looks as though an economic Mohammed had arisen in Lenin and that the world will have to meet his creed.—Charles H. Brent


Red Army youth



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