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Counts's reputation as an educator rested on his expertise in international education. In 1925 he had participated in a survey of schools in the Philippines. In 1927 he learned Russian and went to the Soviet Union, becoming among the first Americans to travel to the new Communist state. In 1929 he repeated the journey, driving a Model A Ford from Vienna, Austria, through six thousand miles of western Russia. Counts was impressed by what he saw in the Soviet Union, especially during his 1929 trip. The planned economic system was revolutionizing Russia, transforming an agrarian society into an industrial power. During this period, before the Stalinist purges that began in the mid 1930s, the Utopian promise of the Soviet Union seemed great, and the Russian schools were apparently busy creating a democratic, industrial polity from a formerly subordinated peasantry. The contrast between the energy and organization of Russian society and...
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