ABSTRACT
At the VIIth World Congress of the Communist International, held in Moscow in August 1935, a number of speakers referred to "the definite and irrevocable victory won by Socialism in the country of the Soviets". The new Soviet Constitution, solemnly adopted on December 5, 1936, by the VIIIth Pan-Union Congress of the Soviets, peremptorily declares, it is true, that "all power in the USSR belongs to the workers of town and country"; but it is precisely on this point that the chasm between the official ideology and everyday reality has always been particularly clear since the birth of the Soviet regime. Even to-day, under the outward cloak of slave life and habits, there are spiritual movements in Soviet Russia which have not yet fully crystallized, but which clearly indicate that Soviet society is gradually ceasing, even in the eyes of the Government, to be negligible human dust.
