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State Department Kremlinologists regard Foreign Affairs as an indispensable source of inside dope on Moscow officialdom ; the quarterly has published more than 200 articles on Soviet Russia, some of them be neath such indisputably knowledgeable bylines as Leon Trotsky, Soviet Theoretician N. Bukharin and Nikita Khrushchev...
...persuaded to moderation and compromise; his speech was couched in Socialist and international tones, as though attempting to placate the Bolsheviks and appealing for the unity that all Russia desperately wanted. The response was bloodthirsty. "Bullets are the only way!" screamed the Bolsheviks. In answer to Chernov, Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin strode to the platform to cry, "We demand a dictatorship of the toiling classes!" and, "From this platform we proclaim a war to the death on the bourgeois-parliamentary republic...
Thus the present "collective leadership" indicated that not only were there deviationists at work in Russia, but showed itself almost as nervous about them as Stalin had been about Bukharin (whom he had executed). Warned Pravda...
...From Bukharin to Bulganin. Mikhail Soloviev, author of My Nine Lives in the Red Army and a novel called When the Gods Are Silent (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953), was once military correspondent for Izvestia, where he learned to find his way safely among the Red army's biggest monsters. He too can tell shocking stories about the secret police-about the porcine Chekist who ravaged a whole Cossack village but lost his own life when attacked by five cavalrymen after killing its last naked, crazed peasant; about the Communist who had the girl who jilted him arrested...
After his old editor Bukharin was finally liquidated in the great 1938 Moscow show trial, Soloviev was sentenced to "minus six," i.e., he was forbidden to live in Russia's six largest cities. He appealed to Lenin's widow and, through her, to Malenkov, with no result. Eventually, Soloviev was drafted and sent to Finland. In World War II he was assigned to a special task force that pulled Russian forces out from behind the advancing German armies and reassembled them for combat. Soloviev himself was pulled out of the war when the Nazis captured him during their...