Soviet Economic Policies: Their Relation to American Policy of Non-Recognition of the Soviet Government

Abstract

T HE present situation in Russia is too complicated, too vast, too bewildering to lend itself to accurate appraisal. One reason why a correct evaluation of the Soviet experiment is difficult at present is that the Russian revolution is without parallel in history. What has happened in Russia is not merely the overthrow of an existing political order, or the inauguration of drastic social changes. That alone is not the Russian revolution. The