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...death. At the last minute he was saved by a combination of luck and the work of a friend who must have put in a good word with Lenin. Back in Petrograd teaching again, on precarious academic tenure, he found it impossible to indoctrinate the sons of the proletariat with the first principles of sociology. He contrived to get himself banished from Russia in 1923, and from then on the tempo of the Sorokin drama relaxed. A short term of lecturing in Prague, then on to America. Professor at the University of Minnesota until 1930, and at Harvard since then...
...read while he runs. Laski reminds British labor of Lenin's reasons for helping Kerensky defend Petrograd against General Kornilov. "It would be wrong," wrote Lenin, as quoted admiringly by Laski, "to think that we have departed from the task of the conquest of power by the proletariat. Not at all. We have approached much nearer to it; only not directly, but obliquely. And at this very minute, we must conduct our agitation against Kerensky . . . by demanding a most active, energetic and revolutionary war against Kornilov. The development of that war alone may put us in power." "That," adds...
Last week the biography appeared in the U. S. The author was Ralph Korngold, a naturalized Hollander, who has also written a biography of Saint-Just. He called his book Robespierre and the Fourth Estate, his fourth estate being not the press but the proletariat. The book is important because: 1) it is one of the few biographies of Robespierre in English; 2) into its 417 pages Biographer Korngold squeezes a synoptic history of the jumbled French Revolution for which Carlyle required two volumes; 3) it shows Robespierre as the prototype of Lenin and Hitler...
...drive many people to madness who without him merely would have been fools." He followed the now-familiar course-from reformer to revolutionist. Like Lenin he transmuted a rabid hatred of his own class into a social system based (at first) on a sentimental love for the proletariat. Like both Lenin and Hitler, Robespierre knew that revolutions never stop at the point where reformers would like to freeze them. And he thoroughly understood revolutionary politics. "To dare!" he said, "is all the politics of the Revolution." His attitude toward a republic was genuinely Naziistic. Madame Roland describes how he once...
...Kapitza went to the U. S. S. R. to attend a scientific meeting. When he started back to England, the dictatorship of the proletariat stopped him, said he was needed at home (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935). There were frustrated roars from the late Lord Rutherford and other big wigs of British science, only miserable silence from Kapitza...