Description: Over the past several years while studying abroad, Father Drane traveled in every country of Western Europe and in all the Eastern European satellite countries. Following a year of study for his Ph.D. at the University of Madrid, he had the rare opportunity to join a group made by a Communist Party organization in Western Europe for an extensive tour of the Soviet Union. On this tour he was free much of the time to go around by himself, uninhibited by the usual restrictions. He talked intimately to individual citizens of many different stations in life. He visited their homes, schools, stores, factories, and farms. He escaped from the show places and went into the back streets. He approached Soviet citizens with their guard down and talked to them as human beings trying to adjust to their place in the Soviet society. In this book Father Drane reveals his unusually thorough grasp of the theory of Communism as worked out by Karl Marx, and makes a fresh and most enlightening comparison between the "dream" and the reality. This is not just another book against Communism or another narrative of a tour behind the Iron Curtain. It is, rather, a charitable attempt to enable the Western reader to understand the inwardness of that system. It will also help him to realize that he will have to face up to the weaknesses and in- consistencies in his own life and his own society from which atheistic Communism takes its strength if he is to meet successfully the challenge of this tremendous and rapidly growing world movement.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
Author: Father James Deane
Publisher: Bruce Publishing
Topic: Travel
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
