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Common Ground

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2024

R. P. Walsh
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‘It is not enough to refute errors; one must overcome them by understanding their grounds. To this venerable truth Bolshevism is no exception.’

The magnificent struggle the Russians have put up in the defence of their Fatherland has warmed millions of hearts to them. In one stroke Hitler, the self-styled scourge of Communism, has done more for the Soviet Union than years of intensive propaganda. From one end of this country to the other, money is pouring in for aid-to-Russia funds, books and pamphlets on the U.S.S.R. are in great demand, and hundreds of thousands wait for news from the Russian front as if it were the British Isles.

As might be expected, the Communist Party of Great Britain has seized the opportunity to interest the masses not so, much in the Russian peoples fighting for their own country as in the class-conscious proletariat fighting for an ideal and for a particular economic theory Anyone who keeps a watch on left-wing booksellers will have noted the flood of pamphlets and books and the rate at which they sell. In comparatively small towns the local communists have the means to hire the main halls frequently and to boost every meeting with plenty of large posters and other publicity matter.

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Research Article
Information
Blackfriars , Volume 23 , Issue 264 , March 1942 , pp. 100 - 107
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Copyright © 1942 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Gurian in Bolshevism ( Sheed & Ward), p. 266.

2 Soviet Tempo (Sheed & Ward), p. 24.

3 See divini Redemptoris. A useful summary of Pius XI’s views on such Catholics will be found in Pope Pius XI, by Philip Hughes (Sheed 8 Ward). pp. 269282.

4 Prof. Hogan in Modern Democracy (Longmans), p. 23.

5 Religion in Russia (Burns, Oates), pp. 65-6.

6 Izvestia, Jan. 27th, 1934.

7 New Conditions-New Tasks, by Stalin, p. 7.

8 Cf. Soviet Communism, by the Webbs, pp. 709-715.

9 Soviet Tempo, by V. Conolly (Sheed & Ward), p. 188.

10 Soviet Communisnt, p. 1146 (2nd Ed.).

11 Cf. Soviet Man-Now. by Iswolsky (Sheed & Ward), p. 22

12 The Great Offensive, by Maurice Hindus, p. 22.

13 In Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

14 Quadragesimo Anno.

15 Religion and the Modern State, by C. Dawson (Sheed & Ward), p. 50.

16 Count Bennigson in Religion in Russia (Burns, Oates).

17 Soviet Communism. Cf. pp. 1004-1016.

18 Religion anii the Modern State, by ‘c. Dawson (Sheed & Ward), p. 50.

19 Acts xvii, 23.

20 Contra Fausturn, xix, 11.

21 Gorki in Pravda, May 23rd, 1934.

22 Soviet Man-Now, Iswolsky (Sheed & Ward), p. 15.

23 Lbid., pp. 50 and 55.