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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: worst of all Russia's problems-the non-productivity and
absolute shortage of labor.
I find a sort of analogy between these methods and those
which we used in England in tackling the similar cumulative
problem of finding men for war. Just as we did not proceed
at once to conscription, but began by a great propaganda of
voluntary effort, so the Communists, faced with a need at
least equally vital, did not turn at once to industrial
conscription. It was understood from the beginning that the
Communists themselves were to set an example of
hard work, and I dare say a considerable proportion of them
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