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Inevitably, Yevtushenko has come to his role as social critic through a desire to purify the Revolution, and revivify the principles of Marx and Lenin. This was not always his mission, but one can see in Yevtushenko's early life tendencies that were later more fully developed. Thus the Autobiography, as a chronicle of Yevtushenko's political development--a side of the man which transcends his poetry--is a valuable work...
...imprisoned and whom the Soviets would like to forget. This youthful fanatic became the model for the dreadful nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and he devised the bleak dehumanized code of conspiracy that became the model for Lenin's Bolshevik Party...
...been deliberately forgotten by the Soviets, but for a while in the '20s, Soviet historians sought in Nechaev's ideas and life a native Russian source for the brilliant success of Lenin's revolutionary theories. Since Stalin's time, he has been the No. 1 skeleton in the congested Soviet closet of historical horrors. According to Michael Prawdin, a Russian emigre living in London, Sergei Nechaev is also a "key to Bolshevism...
...thesis of Biographer Prawdin that the Soviet academicians of the '20s were right about Nechaev: Lenin indeed owed as much to this peasant zealot as he did to the philosopher Marx. He convincingly argues that Stalin (who came closer than any other socialist to the ideal of absolute tyranny in the name of absolute freedom) was right in suppressing Nechaev on Nechaev's own principle that the truth should not be known except to the elite...
...Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques (Oct. 30). Paddy Chayefsky, shrewdly going for new ground every time out, has written The Passion of Josef D., a view of Joseph Stalin from 1917 to 1924, from the Revolution to the death of Lenin...