Fifty years ago the workers and peasants of Tsarist Russia, the “Prison |

House of Nations”, stood up and created the first Socialist state.

Storming the parapets of oppression, ignorance, counter-revolution,
intervention and war, the millions, led by their working class, began to
change their land—and with it the world. For the first time in human history
a people began fulfilling man’s age-old dream of a better life. This new way
of living was not only reflected in their ideas about themselves and their
land, it-ushered in hitherto unheard of ideas about international relations
between peoples.

Lenin's “Decree on Peace”, which declared that peaceful coexistence
between states is a basic principle of the new Soviet State, was the first act
of Soviet power, American writer, John Reed, who was in the Smolny when
the “Decree on Peace” was passed, describes the events:

“Suddenly by common impuse, we found ourselves on our feet, mum-
bling together into the smooth lifting unison of the Internationale. A grizzled
old soldier was sobbing like a child. The immense sound rolled through the
hall, burst windows and doors and soared into the quiet sky.”

Land, Peace and Bread! Here were the hopes and demands of the
masses of Tsarist Russia and, indeed, echoed the aspirations of millions in
other lands then—and still do fifty years later.

The accomplishments, trials and roadblocks; the supreme efforts and
the shortcomings are gathered together in this special Tribune section mark-
ing Fifty Years of Soviet Power in the USSR. Together with a history of the
road already travelled, we include what in reality is the meaning of socialism
—the road ahead.

And so, it is with pride in human achievement, confidence in human
ability and a feeling of strength in the ideas and vitality of socialism that we
have compiled this issue.

Such thoughts are perhaps best conveyed by the inscription cut into
the tomb of workers killed during the Revolution:

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the country—communism. ‘Commu- five-year-plan period uy
nism,” it is indicated in the program,
“is a classless social system with one
form of public ownership of the means
of production and full social equality of
all members of society. Under it, the
all-round development of people will be
accompanied by the growth of the pro-
ductive forces through continuous pro-
gress in science and technology. All
the springs of cooperative wealth will
flow more abundantly, and the great
principle ‘From each according to his
ability, to each according to his needs’
will. be implemented.”

Communism will not simply arrive
one fine morning. Its elements are gra-
dually appearing and maturing in the
depths of Soviet society. But in their
concrete plans of development, Soviet
people envisage the best conditions for
the most rapid development of these
elements. This refers both to the eco-
nomic and the socio-political life of the
country. In order to lend concreteness,
plans are drawn up for definite stages.
The target of the current stage is the
year 1970, the final year of the eighth
five-year economic development plan.

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