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...COMMUNIST PARTY APPARATUS by Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov. 422 pages. Regnery...
...author of this book read an article in Kommunist, an official Communist Party periodical published in Moscow, deploring the fact that the party structure had never been thoroughly analyzed in print. Then and there, Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov decided to correct the oversight. The result will not reap any literary honors, for it is heavy-footed. And, as Avtorkhanov himself admits, the book will not win the Lenin Peace Prize either. Em bedded in its dense pages is the conviction that the free world can never get along with Communist Russia...
...light of recent relaxations under Russia's new regime, not everyone will share Avtorkhanov's dark prospect. But whatever his conclusions, he is singularly qualified to examine the anatomy of Communist power. Avtorkhanov is a cured Communist, born 56 years ago in the Chechen region. He rose steadily through the party apparatus until a certain independence of thought -he opposed Stalin's plan to establish kolkhozes, or collective farms, in the non-Russian areas-nominated him for purging. After five years in Siberia, where he was sent without trial, he joined the abortive 1943 Chechen revolt against...
Coexistence Myth. Avtorkhanov's insider's view of Communist Russia re lies heavily on his contention that the Communist Party is the state. Its 11.8 million members control a nation of 230 million people. The party membership is in turn controlled by the Party Central Committee in Moscow-195 members. And the committee is largely controlled by the first secretary himself...