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I- -,--- - -- - -~ - •··------•- ~ - - - -- - -- - ~ - - - - - - ~ - - ~ SOVIET RUSSIA If I GHTS NEUROSIS 1'1• !\Nl(WOOD E. WILLIAMS 1 M.D. 11 II LONDON ',I•.HCE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD. 111111 l>WAY HOUSE: 68-74 CARTER LANE, E.C. 1934 To MARY ROSS AND ARTHUR KELLOGG Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd ., Frome and London CONTENTS • II AI' . PAGE l'H EFACE . IX 'l'UOSE CRAZY RUSSIANS 11 R OSSIA : A NATION OF ADOLESCENTS 111 TUE SIGNIFICANCE AND ITALY • IV Ovr V I OF DICTATORSHIP : 16 RUSSIA 34 F ROM CONFUSION ' ONI' OSION LESS CONFOUNDED: 51 A RABBI TAKES UP THE CHALLENGE OF A PSYCHIATRIST. By R abbi Morris S. Lazaron VI VI I 111 I ' I I/\TE : CONFUSION MORE CONFOUNDED Youn-r AND THE PRESENT-DAY WORLD °/\ N RUSSIA CHANGE HUMAN NATURE? ED UCATION: CAN RUSSIA TEACH Us? 68 80 102 126 139 WHAT ADOLESCENTS CANNOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT ffi 'I 11 1¢ 'l'UE CHILD'S NEED OF SECURITY F EET OF CLAY 111 ON IV A C AT MAY LOOK AT A KING • V THE RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA l'nOSPECTS : RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN YOUTH I NDEX vii 172 PREFACE ,:r, in uch is written and spoken about Russia that one Iw1·nrn es confused. What is one to believe ? For every I 1vo11 rable statement, one can find from an apparently 1 q 11:1lly authoritative person, an unfavourable statement. N, ,t only is the Russian experiment as a whole differently il l' l' ribed, explained or evaluated, but the same street 1111 id ·nt or item in the larger plan is reported favourably l1y one observer and unfavourably by another. Even I I,rn 1gh we disregard obvious prejudice in either direct 1011 , we are still left confused by the differences betwe~ t I1rn-1 , who, it would seem, are endeavouring to observe .111d to report fairly and objectively. At least two reasons I, ,r these differences, however, are easily discernible. /\ manufacturer who has built up an efficient organiz, 1t ion that now turns out a maximum of product with a 111i11imum of lost effort visits a tractor plant in Russia. 'l'lu: fact that he has come to Russia at all might indicate t I,at he is a somewhat liberal and socially minded ind 1vidual who is not altogether satisfied with social cond I Iions as they are, who believes there should be some , l1 :1 11ges, and who is curious to see what changes the 1{ 11 l-l ians have really made and how things actually " work". His standard is efficiency. He is an expert ,111< i="" ii="" is="" training="" and="" experience="" have="" fitted="" him="" to="" recog111="" 1-:1·="" and="" appreciate="" skilled="" workmanship.="" i{="" ·ady,="" perhaps="" even="" eager="" to="" be="" favourably="" impressed,=""> ~. xi SOVIET RUSSIA FIGHTS NEUROSIS SOVIET RUSSIA FIGHTS NEUROSIS he enters the tractor factory. He is shown through every department ; everything is laid out before him. Officials discuss with him frankly their successes and their failures. He listens to what he is told, observes with his own eyes, and before an hour is over is shocked at what .he has found. Such inefficiency he has never seen ! From this nothing can come ! Scarcely the first principles of efficiency and skill have been learned, he thinks. And when he learns that in this factory a large percentage of the finished product is defective and must be scrapped he throws up his hands. Unheard of ! Outrageous ! Ruinous ! Not in fifty years, if ever, will the Russians be able to man