The Russian Revolution excited men, and captured their imaginations. It seemed to herald the ful-fillment of the nineteenth-century socialist movement. Socialists believed that with the proper use of technocracy they could scourge poverty and hunger from the earth. They felt that a social system based on equality and social justice could overcome the traditional division of each society into rich and poor. They were convinced that they could overcome social problems that, seething and bubbling be-neath the surface, threatened to be as destructive as wars fought between great powers. These...