RUSSIA: What Is News?

When Yudin speaks, Russia listens. For Moscow University Professor P. F. Yudin is to Soviet dialectics what Eugene Tarle is to Soviet history—the nimble scholar who can trim theory to fit practice. Last week the gist of a talk Yudin gave a group of Moscow intellectuals on April 17 reached the U.S. It was important because it put into clear, connected words a picture of how Russian leaders see their country. Introverts & Extroverts. Yudin gave an exegesis of the revised revelation on one of Marx's key texts: that once the classless society has been achieved, "a special repressive...

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