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...after another in a nation historically hobbled by poverty, Tito tempered his doctrinaire Marxism with pragmatism. Explained one official: "If it works, it's socialism, if it doesn't, we throw it out." "What they have in Russia is not Communism at all," pontificated Tito. "The great Lenin would turn in his grave ..." Result: the Yugoslav standard of living, though lower than that of any other country in Europe outside the Iron Curtain, is higher than that of any country inside it. His Communism and his cops are not popular, but his defiance of Russia...
...policy in the Far East, the U.S. has no "double personality," said Dulles. The U.S. does not seek peace in Europe and war in Asia. But he reminded his NATO listeners of Lenin's old edict -that the Communist road to victory in Europe lay through the rubble of revolution in Asia. All the U.S. is trying to do is to check Communism there, "as we have here...
Washington was warm during 1917, but things were decidedly hotter in Petrograd. On the night of October 24 Lenin and a well-organized group of Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government and proclaimed themselves the new rulers of Russia. News of the revolt shocked the whole world, but it positively astounded the members of the Russian embassy in Washington. On the next day Karpovich himself decoded a cable from Trotsky, in which the Bolshevik leader said that if the diplomats there would recognize the new regime they might continue to represent Russia, but if not, would they please vacate the embassy...
...happening may profoundly change the world. Specifically, Karpovich tries to show the Western nations that the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was not an "inevitable," unavoidable result of previous Russian history. He points out that there is no basic affinity between communism and the Russian national character, and that--as Lenin himself admitted--the October Revolution could never have succeeded if the war had not demoralized the country at just that time. Thus the fate of Russia, different today if a certain chance event--a "street meeting" of history--had not occurred...
Sukhanov refused to become a Bolshevik and regarded Lenin and Trotsky as brazen adventurers, ignorant of the mas ter role of economics in "scientific Socialism." By October, Lenin and Trotsky were more intent on seizing power than sticking to strict Marxist theory. Ironically, they decided on a coup d'état in Sukhanov's own flat; Lenin showed up, still incognito, wearing a wig and without beard. Two weeks later, in what is known as the October revolution, the Bolsheviks marched friendly troops to key points and Trotsky sneeringly consigned opposition party members to the "dustbin of history...