U. S.-Soviet Relations: a Perspective

• Date: 01 September 1961
• Published date: 01 September 1961
• Author: R.T. Davies
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296101400364
• Subject Matter: Articles

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That

the

success

of

scientific

achievements

is

also

dependent

on

the

open-

ness

of

communication

(through

books,

periodicals,

and

personal

contacts),

was

fully

recognized

in

the

Soviet

Union

after

Stalin’s

death.

In

September

1953,

the Soviet

Academy

resumed

the

prewar

custom

of

sending

large

delegations

of

scientists

to

international

congresses.

The

publication

effort

of

the

Academy

is

prodigious

and

is

constantly

rising.

The

Academy

publishes

over

fifty

weekly,

monthly

and

bimonthly

journals,

reporting

original

scientific

work

carried

out

in

the

U.S.S.R.

To

follow

scientific

discoveries

in

the

non-Soviet

world,

three

media

are

used:

review

journals,

translations

of

foreign

treatises,

and

an

abstract

journal.

In

addition

the

Information

Bureau

of

the

Academy

has

initiated

the

publication

of

the

&dquo;Expressinformation&dquo;

in

a

further

attempt

to

keep

Soviet

scientists

informed

of

developments

in

critical

scientific

fields.

This

way

the

Soviet

scientists

are

supposed

to

receive

information

enabling

them

to

modify

research

programs,

avoid

duplication,

or

stimulate

new

research.

In

the

last

eight

years,

it

seems,

a

superficial

calm

has

settled

over

the

Soviet

science

scene.

The

isolation

of

the

Soviet

scholars

has

been

partially

lifted.

The

truculent

attitude

of

its

leadership

and

the

party

has

disappeared.

No

violent

polemics

shake

its

structure.

Some

of

the

banished

scholars

have

reappeared

and

their

reputations

rehabilitated.

Although

Lysenko

has

been

praised

for

his

achievements

in

fertilization

methods

and

cross-breedings

of

animals

by

Khrush-

chev

himself,

the

Soviet

government

and

the

Communist

party

do

not

appeal

to

principles

of

Marxism

for

the

development

of

Soviet

genetics

as

they

did

in

1948.

Luncheon

Address

U.

S.-SOVIET

RELATIONS:

A

PERSPECTIVE

R.

T.

DAVIES

United

States

Department

of

State

The

struggle

between

the

non-Communist

and

Communist

parts

of

the

world

is

not

based

upon

mere

differences

of

policy

which

can

be

resolved

through

normal

negotiating

procedures.

Negotiations

between

the

two

sides

on

specific

issues

may

result

in

agreements

when

the

interests

of

both

coincide.

But

the

struggle

as

a

whole

cannot

be

resolved

through

diplomatic

means,

since

it

results

from

the

determination

of

the

Communists

to

spread

their

ideology

and

system

to

the

rest

of

the

world.

It

will

continue

as

long

as

the

non-Communist

nations

resist

this

expansion,

and

until

they

finally

succeed

in

convincing

the

Communists

that

their

goal

is

unattainable.

The

Communists

possess

important

advantages

in

waging

the

struggle.

Among

these

are:

a

flexible

ideology,

which

appeals

to

many,

particularly

in

the

developing

world;

vast

human

and

material

resources;

totalitarian

means

of

mobi-

lizing

these

resources

for

use

in

the

international

arena .

The

West

also

possesses

important

advantages:

over-all

economic

superiority,

both

actual

and

potential;

a

high

degree

of

political

awareness

and

voluntary

cooperativeness

among

its

peoples;