Foreign News: Passion & Deep Thought

In the U.S.S.R. art may not be long but it is extra tough. Last week the Soviet creative artist got marching orders from Kultura i Zhizn (Culture and Life), a new fortnightly which Moscow's Department of Agitation and Propaganda has founded to guide him onward & upward.

High-minded as the masthead of the New York Post* was Kultura i Zhizn's program: "to develop Bolshevist criticism of defects in different branches of the economy and cultural life and to carry on an unyielding struggle with the remnants of the old ideology and with undiscipline, laziness,...

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