A Failed Soviet Experiment Offers A Warning To Today’s Burnout Generation
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A Failed Soviet Experiment Offers A Warning To Today’s Burnout Generation
No one has ever really been able to topple the seven-day week. French revolutionaries tried to institute a ten-day week. Bolsheviks aimed for a five-day week. No one tried harder than Miss Elisabeth Achelis, a New York socialite, heir to the American Hard Rubber Company fortune, and an admirer of Melvil Dewey, he of the Dewey decimal system and si
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