Manual Arts High School - Artisan Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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TH E LAND OF THE COSSACKS By (jERTrude Klein land of the Cossacks, the huge Free Steppes over which the Ucks formerly exercised control, has changed immensely. The great dssian prairies of wild grass have given away to the far stretching wheat fields, and the Cossack Stanitzi (villages) have been replaced by the villages of the South Russian peasants and more modern structures. The race of the Cossacks is today fast disappearing and in its place, a new Russia under a new type of government has grown up — a new Rus- sia whose civilization is based on an entirely new pattern. Today Russia is far different from other nations. Wealth holds no power in her dominion. The wealthy class of former times is com])letely degraded and he who can boast that his family for centuries has been only workingmen, is looked up to by his comrades. The ignorance and illiteracy which the Russian peasants displayed during the reign of the Czar, is disappearing under the system of com- pulsory education which the leaders of the new Russia have instituted. The old fashioned implements which the peasants used for farming have given way to modern scientific equipment. This is typical of the vast procedure of change in Russia. The plan of scientific socialism, which was founded by Karl ? larx about fifty years ago, is being tried in Soviet Russia today. Whether the second Five Year Plan. under the direction of Stalin, will prove to be successful remains to be seen, Init meanwhile the eyes of the world are focused upon the New Russia. As the Indian life of North America began its disaj pearance when the white man took possession of the land, so the Cossack life is today disappearing under the new government of Soviet Russia.

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18 THE ARTISAN S ' 34 SENIOR A CABINET Billy Coe, President Maky Durand, Girls ' Vice-Pres. Pat Kelly. Boys ' Marion Lois Morgan, Secretary Harold Wright, V ' tce-Pres. Treasitrer