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Soviet Hoard. Opponents of dollar devaluation assert that it would bring windfall profits to the largest producers of gold, South Africa and the Soviet Union. Lenin's remarks notwithstanding, the Soviets have been hoarding their gold in recent years and have sold little of it. Perhaps they have been betting on a gold price increase, or holding on to their bullion in order to go on a shopping spree in the West at some opportune time. Their stockpile has been roughly estimated to be worth $3 billion...
...unknown memoirs and monographs written by victims of the purges. Performing a delicate balancing act, he manages to deliver a scathing indictment of the Soviet regime during the quarter of a century that Stalin ruled, while at the same time endorsing the goals of the Bolshevik revolution and acquitting Lenin of responsibility for the crimes committed by his successor. In answer to the question of why Lenin permitted Stalin to contend for power in the early '20s, Medvedev writes: "Lenin's natural enthusiasm for people often led him into mistakes." He also criticizes Lenin for recommending...
Aberration. If he has an occasional bone to pick with Lenin, however, Medvedev has nothing but condemnation for Stalin. He sees Stalin as typical of the "unstable and dishonorable people who join a revolutionary movement and later degenerate into tyrants." Medvedev writes: "His political views were formed under the influence of Marx and Lenin, but they did not grow into convictions, into a system of Communist moral principles . . . He was only a fellow traveler of revolution." Medvedev's thesis is that Stalinism was an aberration of Communism and that the Marxist-Leninist system is still the best hope...
...Revolution, Konenkov visited New York in 1924 and decided to settle in Greenwich Village. There this disciple of Russian realism continued to create figures in marble, stone, ceramics and wood that were unabashedly heroic. Before returning to the Soviet Union for good in 1945, Konenkov, winner of both the Lenin and Stalin prizes, sculpted studies of many great men of both nations...