TilFOIU-rATION PAPER ON AI3RICAr l::;COfJO!:Y Introduction 11 If the nineteenth century was a century of capitalism, the tl'lentieth century is a century of the triumph o.f socialisr:t and cormnunism. tt So spoke Lazar Kaganovich, First Deputy of the Soviet Union, on the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Dol shevik Revolution, 6, 1955. Tl.ro months earlier, on Se:pter1ber 17, Iliki ta Krushchcv, Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, reported that he had said to C...