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Basil: Commt Russiain BY FRED MONK Staff Writer Soviet communism is a western ideology which governs an Eastern society, according to Dr. John D. Basil, Department of History pro fessor. Communism is not an Eastern tradition, said Basil, who teaches Russian history. Instead it is a Western theory developed from the ideas of Karl Marx and Fredric Engels. Basil said that communism was able to gain power in Russia be cause of the failure of the Men she*ik party to take unified con trol of the country after the revo. lution in 1917. "The ideas of the Mensheviks were not adequate to cope with the situation in Russia." lie added that the Mensheviks' conclusions to the problems of Russia were limited and they pre vented other groups from coming forth with more workable solu tions. The Mensheviks destroyed them selves, Basil noted, and then the Bolsheviks headed by Lenin took control. Assuring communist power was Dr. Lenin's first move but by consoli (dating his own piower' Lenin dle stroyedl the affluence which had been dlevelop)ed in Russia. "Russia is just now starting to regain affluenuce in the world," Basil said. "Hussia is now zat the Ievel of affluence it had before "Somecone me to go to Vogue for shaping." Raquel Welch OfrrsoMai 253-234 II For Meal-Time AAMaors ism I Progrf the 1917 revolution." Basil noted that communism had nothing to do with the affluence which Russia is now beginning to re-establish. Just the opposite he stated, saying that communism has been a severe hindrance in the de velopment of Russia. "There is a large black market in the Soviet Union today," he said, "and the communists rely on the black market. "The S o v i e t government has been successful where the leaders have a b a n d o n e d communism. These are the areas of affluence. "Where the communists have re treated the country has developed," he added. Russia is an Eastern Christian society, Basil said and he contin ued, "Communism is a Western Christian heresy, which has noth ing to do with the Russian culture at all." Communism controls every as pect of soviet life except o n e. "The Eastern Orthodox Church is the only private institution in the Soviet Union," Basil said. "And it is the only institution which the government has no i n f I u et n c e over." Basil noted t h a t the Russian people have been ruled by a West Staff Photo by Chusk Keofor Basil er-n influenced government e v e r since Peter the Great introduced Western ideas into the Eastern Orthodox society. He said that the p)eop)le of Rus c03e,josera * ONE IIOURf OR ONE (BY IREQUJEST) * SPEClALIST IN CLAN AND TRCIMS * 24-110O:R (COIN-OP IAI * SHIRTS LAUNDERIEDI' (ON IIANG;ERS A'l * GOID1 SEAL, DRtY (IE, WE INVITE YOU TO (COMF SUNSHINE (:1 CHICKEN Reg. 9~ Cornplete W'ith: Fi ROLLS AND 3 BURGER FJR Rosewood anc A &W DR: Beilineand- Two ANoth r De inders 2hssion sia were detached from the govern ment and that there is no real un dejstanding between the govern ment and the people. "The people have just complete apathy towards the government," he said. "When they see the rulers they ace the government." Basil said that the Bolshevik take-over in 1917 was "j u s t a changing of the guard." He said that the Russian people were not used to political freedom, therefore they did not know what to do with it when they got it. The history professor said as al result of the Mongol invasion in the 13th century the Russian peo ple have been submitted to rigid a n d severe governing hierarchy which has lasted to the present (lay. A book by Basil which is to be published soon, called "The Men. sheviks in 1917," has been two years in the making. He hopes to work oan a textbook for Russian history. Prof. I This article is reprinted from the The Scotsman, a newspaper in Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct. 28: By Our Own Reporter If you want some instant infor mation on Burns, Ramsay, Fergus son, Scott, Hogg or any of their poetic friends, you have only about five years to wait. By that time they will all be s a f e I y tucked up together in a computer at t h e University of South Carolina, which will then contain the world's most complete bibliography of Scottish poets from 1700 to 1900. Professor G. Ross Roy of that far-flung campus has been work ing on it since 1965. He is on one of his periodic visits to Scotland, a large percentage of which he spends in reference libraries. The electronic bibliography, he says, will h o 1 d information on about 15,000 poetry texts published (luring those prolific two centuries. "The c o m p u t e r will be pro grammed so that, for example, you could get immediately a list of all poetic works publishe4 in Edin burgh between 1701 and 1730. A comp)lete cross-reference system." TIhe great thing about a comn p)uter bibliography, applarently, is DAY SERVICE ING IfATIIERS, SLEDES NDRY~ NO EXTRA CHIARGE) lfY AND IC(K UP YSOUR SEDIT (ARD) eit DINNER Box kc, Now 69c tENCH FRIES, COLE SLAW, PIECES OF CHICKEN. MILY INN I Woodrow EVE -INS 'in,a ndr F4 Jackreon Blvd. (N&5 Aftt (.%IN IM05 SUvDt*ML, o.. pit,A F06E6T-LS IN SuSNI As AM OAMOUS 60#iVD_fll loy Pt that if you want to make alt( tions or additions, you don't i to gnash your teeth and tea1 page out. You just reprogran the bit that matters. 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