Abstract:
The author tries to answer the question why the fighter for human rights and defender of
Bill of rights professor Corliss Lamont became apologist of the USSR and the soviet national
policy? In author’s view Lamont saw in the national policy of the USSR the paradigmatic case of
solution of problems of racial and national inequalities, which were the acute problems for the
USA and the world which was divided into metropolis and colonies. Georgia was one of the
cases on which he observed the achievements of Soviet national policy. He is admired for it’s
nature and people, dances, sings and national character of Georgians. In his view Georgians had
ancient culture and adopted Christianity three centuries before the Anglo Saxon. He admires the
Svan towers which in his opinion resemble the architecture of Northern Italy, considers
Khevsurs as descendants of the crusaders. In Abkhazia he found self-governing village
inhabited by blacks. Lamont talks about the production of manganese in Chiatura. At one time
Averell Harriman, then American ambassador to Moscow headed a syndicate that operated
these manganese deposits on concession basis. Lamont repeated views of soviet leadership about
soviet national polity and didn’t speak of problems of this policy and the means soviet
government used to resolve them.
