Stalin,he had been minister,

斯大林曾任部长
or whatever they called the Commissar of Nationalities.

或者是他们所谓的民族事务人民委员
The idea that workers' self-management,

由工人进行自行管理
self-control, control of the means of production,

以及自我控制控制生产方式的理念
would be implemented in this new brave world

本将在这个勇敢的新世界中落实实行
was shattered rather quickly with strikes and protests by workers,

却很快地被工人们的罢工和抗议毁灭
smashed by the police,

被警察
by the Soviet state.

被苏维埃俄国粉碎
The illusion would be perpetuated in the 1920s,

这一幻想本将在二十世纪二十年代永存
and even in the 1930s,

甚至是二十世纪三十年代
that this was a true workers' paradise,

那将会是工人们真正的天堂
and that everything was groovy.

届时一切都会变得很有趣