ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a good deal of scattered information about the daily life of an average man in Russia. The five years' plan really means the industrialisation of Russia. Formerly Russia exported foodstuffs, and yet the population ate well. The statistics hurled about by the Bolsheviks are as dazzling in this as in other fields. The Bolsheviks are suffering from a lack of goods, which lack, according to them, proceeds from the fact that Russian industry has not yet been sufficiently developed to meet the needs of the internal market, while they will not and cannot purchase goods from capitalist countries. Socialist rivalry, the socialist structure, enthusiasm and propaganda, workmen and communist cells, work, and, once again, work—the whole atmosphere in which Bolshevia exists and has its being is simply doping. It is obvious that human profit, and especially the profit of that element which directs work, is the natural reward of work.
