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...recently published Let History Judge (TIME, Jan. 17), Roy Medvedev says that Trotsky's conceit was so famous that many of his own supporters called him barin (the lord...
...protest is that professionals in the West took so long to acknowledge the documented evidence of malpractice in the Soviet Union. The first extensive revelations were made in 1963 by Author Valery Tarsis, whose book Ward Seven described his internment in a Moscow psychiatric hospital. More recently, Geneticist Zhores Medvedev and his twin brother. Historian Roy Medvedev, published A Question of Madness (TIME, Sept. 27), which tells of their struggle to win Zhores' release from a mental hospital after he published an attack on the theories of Stalin's favorite scientist, Geneticist T.D. Lysenko...
...foreign protest. Dr. Snezhnevsky found it necessary to insist in an interview in Izvestia that it is "absolutely impossible for healthy people to be committed to mental hospitals in the Soviet Union." As a sign of concern about their image at home and abroad, Soviet authorities released Zhores Medvedev, at least partly in response to a flurry of protesting telegrams from foreign scientists. Thus the questions raised by Western psychiatrists may yet have some effect on what Dissident Author Andrei Amalrik, last reported in ill health in a Siberian prison camp, calls "the most disgusting thing that this regime does...
...Medvedev's book (whose title would be more literally translated as "Toward the Court of History") implies that Medvedev sees himself as a prosecutor. His work, however, is remarkably free from both the hostility that often mars Western studies of Russian politics and the dogmatism that distorts Soviet scholarship. For example. Medvedev proves a hard-digging detective, while at the same time a fair judge of evidence, in his handling of the persistent story that Stalin worked as a double agent for the Czarist secret police before the revolution. Much as Medvedev detests the dictator and therefore may have...
...fails on the second count. Those chapters that reconstruct what happened under Stalin seem measured and secure as a historical record. But in the more theoretical sections, where he attempts to explain how a Communist revolution could give way to wholesale slaughter of a citizenry by its government, Medvedev is in difficulty. While asserting that Stalin's rise to power was not inevitable and that Stalinism was a "disease," he also knows that the disease raged for more than a quarter of a century and that Soviet society is still not healthy. That Stalin could divert the inevitable progress...