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Writings of Sinyavsky whose pseudonym is Abram Tertz, and Daniel, whose pseudonym is Nikolai Arzhak, have been smuggled into Europe in recent years. "Both are very hostile to what's sacred in the Soviet system," Berman said. Sinyavsky, for example, once likened Lenin to "a dog baying at the moon...
Could this really be a congress of Italy's Communist Party? There sat the 1,200 local delegates, bourgeois and beaming, as their leader talked tolerantly of compromise with the capitalists and collaboration with the Catholics. But for a lonely little bust of Lenin on the podium and the presence of Moscow's cadaverous Ideologue Mikhail Suslov (who brought it), not a single picture, statue or reference to Russia's Communist heroes, past or present, could be seen or heard. Instead, what hook-nosed Secretary-General Luigi Longo, 65, was promoting was something that he styled...
...stricken state of Kerala in India's arid southwest. The Communists had won elections for state officers and had been in power for 27 months when Indira popped in for a visit in 1959. She was horrified. What seems to have upset her most were new schoolbooks that depicted Lenin and Mao Tse-tung, instead of Mahatma Gandhi, as the true heroes of the oppressed. "Everything the Communists are doing is wrong," she cried as she hurried back to Delhi and forced the hesitant central government to oust Kerala's Red rulers and place the state under federal supervision...
...intention of providing medical treatment for the peasants. But when he discovered the famine in the Volga region, he told the Soviets that there was a glut of wheat in the U.S. and thereupon made a deal. For American wheat he bartered Russian furs, hides and caviar. Recalls Hammer: "Lenin called me to the Kremlin and said: 'We don't need doctors. We need Americans to do other things.' " Hammer became sales representative in Russia for 38 American companies, including Ford, Underwood, Allis Chalmers and Parker Pen. When he gave up his concessions nine years later...
...finished portrait of Lenin is unconvincing, but more important, it is uncommitted. Be The Bolsheviks a history or a biography, it deals with a period whose major issues were as much moral as intellectual, economic, and political. When it comes to handling moral questions, a book need more than a pile of factual truths. The author himself must make an entrance and make some decisions. This is the time for the book to come alive. But Ulam fails to appear, and his book never rises above painstaking historical geology