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Gulag also recounts the better-known horrors of the Stalin era while adding some sensational disclosures and intimations. Solzhenitsyn suggests, for example, that Stalin was an undercover agent of the Okhrana (the Czarist secret police) in the disguise of a Bolshevik revolutionary-thus reinforcing the suspicions of several Western scholars. Gulag also says that Stalin planned a large-scale "massacre" of Jews that was thwarted by his death in 1953. In that year the arrest of several Jewish physicians, accused of plotting to assassinate high government officials, unleashed a wave of antiSemitism...
...revelation" that Stalin was a spy for the czarist secret police, Okhrana, appears in article by Alexander Orlov, one of the Soviet Union's highest ranking NKVD officers in the 1930's. Orlov offers his story as an explanation for the recent about face of Russian leaders in denouncing Stalin...
Malia also attacked the authenticity of a letter claimed by its discoverer to prove Stalin's connection with the czarist regime until 1913. Isaac don Levine, author of the first major biography of Stalin, claims to have found an Okhrana letter, written in 1913, in which Stalin's "spying" activities are discussed...
...certified expert: organizer of the underground in St. Petersburg's high schools, and author of proclamations that clamored for class revolt. By the time he was 27, Papa Skriabin's boy had been jailed six times, exiled twice. His name was so well known to the Okhrana, the Czarist secret police, that he changed it to Akim Prostota, which means roughly "Simple Sam." But the comrades called, him Molotov-a derivative of molot, a hammer...
...institutions and tried to impose a form of society of which 99 Russians out of 100 had never heard, which had not been tried anywhere, and for which Russia was called unfit by the very men who had invented this idea of society. If Czarism needed an Okhrana, clearly the Bolshevist state would need a super-Okhrana to fill the larger social vacuum...