The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-08
Achievements of the Cultural Revolutions

both scientific and popular, is very
great.
1t is the classics of Marxism in
particular that are published. The
Marx Engels Institute, founded in
1922, has become first class scien-
tific institution of worldwide i'm
portance. The sections and the work
of the Communist Academy, of the
All-Russian Council of Scientific In
situations, and Of the Academy for
Material Culture have likewise aug
mented.
Our Scientific Academy is now
being reformed; new forces are be-
ing enlisted, and the institution is
being brought into line with the
times. There can be no doubt but
that the Academy is about to enter
upon the most brilliant period of its
existence. Together with the Russian
Academy of Sciences, the Ukrainian
Academy has developed, while a
White Russian Academy has just
been founded.
| Women and Culture.
In my report in the Central Exc
cutive Committee year ago, also
had occasion to speak of certain fac
tors characterizing yet another side
Of our mass-culture. l refer to the
important progress of women in
public work and the great advance
in the consciousness of women, even
of the most primitive among them,
such as the peasant women and the
women of the East. The Women's
Congress which took place last year
showed some surprising achieve
ments in this respect. 1t is only for
lack of space moreover, that l re-
frain here from speaking of the
rapid development of physical culture
among us, of its qualitative and
cumulative success, and of the i'm
portant achievements of the Health
Protection League, which recently
celebrated it's tenth anniversary.
Added to these results, we have the
undeniable fact of the repression of
infant mortality and in consequence
a satisfactory development of the
population.
The growth of the Party and of
its influence, the development of the
Young Communist League and of its
activity, the rising cultural level of
the working masses and of the young
peasants-all these factors are re-
Elected in thousands of satisfactory
circumstances.
Cultural Self Criticism.
The principle of self-criticism de-
mands of US that we should be cir
cumspect and that we should not
cease to control and report. If a
widespread development of self
criticism were to show up all sorts
of things which are faulty about
our development--seeing that criti-
cism must in the first place reveal
the unsatisfactory side-this would
discourage no one who has really a
proper conception of the internal
character Of this process. 1t must
be pointed out, however, that the
realization of Gorki's idea is now
at hand, for a special publication,
to be known as "Our Achievements"
is shortly to appear and will con-
front a sound self-criticism with the
cnumerations Of the results attained
Such an enumeration must be tho
roughly healthy; it must reveal the
character which distinguished the
resolution of the Central Executive
Committee following on my report
on our cultural work, delivered on
the occasion of the tenth anniver-
sary of the revolution. Without for
: getting our achievements, we must
always remember that they are still
slight in comparison with what the
population and our great cause de-
mand.