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Staring across Zaslavsky's desk is a plaster bust of Lenin, molded in sternest mien. Zaslavsky remembers - and well -that even before Lenin had a political party he founded a newspaper to promote revolution, assigned its correspondents...
...Into Night. Zaslavsky was not always a Lenin idolator. In the year (1900) when Lenin founded his first illegal news paper, Zaslavsky, too, had become a revolutionary. But he chose to join the Jewish General Social-Democratic Union - known as the Jewish Bund. Though both re mained revolutionaries, from 1903 onward he opposed Lenin's methods. In 1917, thirteen days after Lenin's seizure of power, Zaslavsky's opposition twanged toward its angriest pitch : "Lenin has taken power to become the genuine autocrat of Russia. ... So far only the bourgeois press has been extinguished. . . ." Twenty-one days...
...Zaslavsky's scream against Lenin only brought Lenin's censors in greater, more ferocious force, to hound him from cellar to cellar. He changed the name of his newspaper from Den (Day) to Noch (Night) and then to Pol Noch (Half-night). But before long, darkness engulfed it altogether. Darkness also engulfed a number of his Jewish Bundist colleagues. It was then that Zaslavsky "reexamined his political beliefs" and threw himself on the mercy of his erstwhile enemies, the Bolsheviks. He became one of them, and has since been among their most zealous servitors...
...Zaslavsky's desk, near Lenin's plaster head, is a ceramic crocodile, the animal that weeps fake tears. Last week Zaslavsky finally finished his sermon to Edwin L. James and the U.S. press...
...Protected Books. What taught me, perhaps, most about the people's life in Russia was a library, not a prison-though the difference was hard to tell. It was the Lenin Library in Moscow. Russian propaganda calls it "the world's greatest library," and speaks proudly of its twelve million volumes. It stands, massive and modern, at the start of Kalinin Street near the Kremlin, with a gigantic block-long bookstack...