ABSTRACT
A new image of the Russians as the nation which had 'advanced farthest along the managerial road' was presented by James Burnham's Managerial Revolution. Experience in England's collectivized wartime economy strengthened the feeling that perhaps public ownership of the means of production would be more desirable at the end of the war than the pre-war anarchy. Evidence of Russian achievement was impressively deployed in the House of Lords on 21 November 1956 by Lord Simon of Wythenshawe, the industrial chairman of the Council of Manchester University and founder of the Universities Quarterly. By 1943 the veteran English geographer, Sir Holford Mackinder, had reached the 'unavoidable conclusion' that 'if the Soviet Union emerges from this war as conqueror of Germany, she must rank as the greatest land power on the globe. Moreover, she will be a power in the strategically strongest defensive position.
