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...professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies. Russia Leaves the War is the first volume (two more to come) of his history of Russia's time of troubles. It might as justly have been called Russia Leaves the West, for with the triumph in 1917 of Lenin's Bolsheviks over Russia's first and only democratic (Kerensky) government, the Czar's old empire made its fateful turn toward ancient patterns of tyranny and away from the liberal currents of the West...
Fool's Mate. Kennan's book begins by evoking the grimness of the Russian scene seen at its capital, Petrograd, where at every hand "one feels the proximity of the great wilderness of the Russian north-silent, somber, infinitely patient." Lenin and Trotsky were emerging as the main figures on that somber scene. These agile clever, ruthless and dedicated men-Stalin was still a poisonous penumbra on the horizon of history-were theoretically bent on directing Russia as an ally of the U.S. and the Anglo-French alliance against imperial Germany and Austria. The problem...
...white hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to hear Premier Nikolai Bulganin deliver what was in effect a State of the Soviet Union message. They sat in their polished wood pews, drably dressed Baits and colorful Asians in skullcaps and shawls, gawking at the 8-ft. statue of Lenin and reading Pravda, hushing attentively while Bulganin pointed with pride to the nation's industrial output-up 12% over the first half of 1955-and viewed with alarm the disappointing performance of the coal and oil industries. He promised to reduce the number of women employed as heavy laborers...
...relaxed Communist exit rules, went south to Hong Kong for a visit. She had to leave one member of the family behind, her husband. But she brought along her child Li Po, who just had finished his first term in the state-run kindergarten. He wore a dark blue Lenin uniform and, for a boy of five, a preternaturally grave expression...
...Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's sensational speech (TIME, June 11) at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party. Last week they got the beginnings of one from Marxist Pietro Nenni, leader of the Italian Red Socialist Party. It struck with shattering force into the foundations of the "back to Lenin" movement which Khrushchev, Tito et al. are promoting as a substitute for Stalinism...