Title | What has become of the Russian Revolution |
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Publisher | International Review |
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Date | 1937 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 63 pages; 22 cm |
Original Item Location | HN523.Y8613 1937 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304536~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
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Transcript | his already weighed down person by the "organized" method of food distribution. However, the rye bread which cost him 60 kopeoks a kilo before the reform, he must buy now at 85 kopecks a kilo. The same change occurred in the prices of other necessaries. His wage, on the other hand, rose at the same time only 10 to 15%. What Does the Soviet Worker Eat? What are the food-stuffs that the Russian worker can buy and in what quantities does he buy them? Below is the worker's ration in 1934. That is, this is what he had the right to buy for himself and his family in the "distributor". WORKERS CLERKS AND HOUSEWIVES CHILDREN Wheat bread Rye bread Meat including bones Butter and fat Sugar Dry legumes Potatoes 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 — 0.5 0.8 0.4 0.8 0.4 1st. cat. 2nd cat. Daily ration in kilos: (1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds) 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 Monthly ration in kilos: 2 1 0.4 0.4 1 1 1 0.5 irregularly, a rare food You can see from this table that there is one member of Soviet society who is even worse off than the worker. It is the Soviet "employee", the clerk, who had no other source of provisioning than the "distributor" in 1934. It is important to have the worker believe that the revolution brought him something. He is not entirely at the foot of the ladder. Is not the "employee", the small clerk, more unfortunate? The Bolsheviks have ever been exceedingly clever. On the basis of the rations given above, the ordinary Russian worker was obliged — and is obliged now, with the modified mode of distribution — to content himself with the following daily menu: WAGE EARNER Breakfast (before 8 o'clock) Lunch (at noon) Dinner (5 P.M.) tea and bread factory meal or when he does not work: tea and bread soup and kasha NON-WAGE EARNER (WIFE AND children} tea tea and bread soup and kasha or: tea and bread tea and bread Supper (8 P.M.) tea and bread Tea is often a simple extract of dried carrots or dried wild fruit. Sugar is rare. We may say that most of the population have been reduced to bread and water. It will be hard for the Western worker to believe that it is possible to live on so little. Facts like these given above seem to go to prove that it is not physiologically impossible. We have here, of course, a fare that a working human being can barely subsist on. 19 |