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"Utopians think that science can transform the Atlantic Ocean into lemonade," snorted Karl Marx's coworker, Friedrich Engels. Yet who should be serving up lemonade last week than that old realist Nikita Khrushchev. In the Kremlin's marble-hailed Palace of the Congresses, addressing the Communist Party Central...
By early 1960 Mao had clearly given up hope of persuading Khrushchev to change his flexible cold war policy, and began an all-out Chinese offensive designed to topple Khrushchev from power. It was also the start of an endless argument about whether authority for Moscow's "peaceful coexistence...
∙ON MARXISM: "The reactionary doctrines of the 19th century philosophers like Marx and Engels will before long begin to give way before the contemporary facts of life. Marx spent most of his working life in my country, it is true, and based his theories upon his experiences there: but...
In large part, Soviet Russia is a monument to Karl Marx. It was Marx's Communist Manifesto, written with Frederick Engels in 1848, that became the blueprint for the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Marxist doctrine still guides Russia today. From Lenin to Khrushchev, Russia's Communist leaders...
But Schwarz had an interest deeper than doctoring. In 1940 he fell into an argument with an Australian Communist. After this debate, he determined to find out all he could about Communism. He steeped himself in the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, to the point that friends recall...