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...research in Russia have given Dr. Simmons access to documents not available before the October Revolution of 1917, and he has made the most of his opportunities. His thorough scholarship has examined and probed the reports of the Czarist police, therefore, his opinions of Pushkin's relations with the Decembrista may be regarded as based upon unassailable facts. Pushkin, in his estimate, emerges as a Liberal and thus both the Red and White Russians can claim him for their own, since the classic definition of a Liberal, according to Mr. Eugene Gordon, is one who weeps with the workers...
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