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Focuses on the Russian Revolution. Reason of the Revolution being the collapse and exhaustion of the Soviet Union feeble and artificial industries under the war and the pressure of the German blockade; Demobilization and transformation of the Russian Army into labor battalions for reconstructive work; Discussion on Russian secret armistice with Poland.

Traces the history of Russian people and views of the American public towards them. Views of the author about communists; Attitude of the American people towards communists in the Soviet Union; Aspects of Russian history as understood by the people of the U.S.; Reaction of the Russian people to impulses; Period during which Russian society had maximum exposure to Western influence; Impact of the western civilization on the Soviet Union; Consideration of Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century as the greatest of all critics of contemporary Western civilization; Attitude of Russian intellectuals towards western culture; Failure of liberal development in the Soviet Union to improve socio-economic conditions of the Soviet Union; Causes of the collapse of Russian liberalism as a political movement; Impact of the Russian Revolution on its economy;Features of concentration camps system used in Kremlin; Contribution of the contemporary Russian public, in the fields of art and literature.

Presents an excerpt from a diary of an American during the Russian Revolution. Police patrolling along the Kamennoostrovski Prospect; Factory strike to protest against the shortage of bread; Distinction between "baba" or simple women and "dama" or lady; Harassments experienced by police from the public; Law forbidding the baking and selling of cakes, petits fours, cookies, buns or anything made of sweet dough.

Focuses on the danger of world revolution in case of Soviet Union's victory over Germany in the Second World War. View of German Dictator Adolf Hitler against Bolshevism; Report that the real cause of the Russian Revolution was Marxism; Impact of the rule of the Communist Party in the Soviet union since 1921; Fight between Communist leader Joseph Stalin and Russian revolutionist Leon Trotsky; Home program of Stalin for the construction inside the Soviet Union; Report that Stalin in his work of industrialization and collectivization, which the present war has proved to have been so indispensable, had at one time been almost, at war with the main body of his own people--the peasantry; Impact of the Soviet Union's alliance with Great Britain; Report that the Communist Party has changed completely both in its objectives and in its composition in the present times; Stalin's stand for the peace and the interests of his country.

The article presents information on Soviet Union in the past fifteen years. The article discusses military strengths and communism. The task of creating an economically, politically, socially and culturally better country than the rest of the world is still unfinished. Only the foundation has been laid. Soviet Union is making her future before she has destroyed her past. That this backward nation should have staged the first social revolution is neither a contradiction nor an accident. It was backward because its bourgeoisie was weak, too weak to resist the forces of revolution.

The article presents news briefs for the week of October 10, 1964. Particular attention is given to U.S. global and domestic policies. Article topics include China's entry into the world of atomic weapons, the health dangers of smoking cigarettes, the political participation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and an upcoming General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) that will focus on Russia paying its share of the UN force that fought in the Congo.

Focuses on the strength of the ground forces of the Soviet Union, as of December 1963. Equilibrium between the U.S. nuclear panoply and the Russian superiority in ground forces, before the Soviet Union became a nuclear power; Effect of the frustration of Moscow's successive attempts to profit from its nuclear power; Lesson of the world's experience in the diplomatic uses of nuclear power; Purpose of a nuclear panoply.

The article focuses on Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, Minister of Defense for the Soviet Union under Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev. It emphasizes the role of Malinovsky on the summit meeting in Paris, France where Khrushchev revealed the failure of the U.S. for military intelligence on the Soviet Union's airspace using the U-2 airplanes. Malinovsky's military life, the announcement of Khrushchev in Berlin, Germany, and the response of Eisenhower on Khrushchev's statements are also discussed.

For the outside world the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution has been seriously overshadowed by the executions, political trials, and mass arrests which have occurred in recent months. It is generally believed that the Soviet Union is in the midst of the most severe political crisis of its history. Political observers have commented on the decline of Soviet prestige and suggested that Russia's failure to embark on a war with Japan is an unmistakable indication of Soviet weakness. Yet it is doubtful whether the average Soviet citizen is conscious of any grave crisis in the political life of his country.