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...stringer at the University of Washington, discovered Thompson Hall, where his own office is located, in flames. He had little hesitation in helping to chase down a suspected arsonist. "No man tries to burn down a building as a protest unless he is in the last stages of revolt against his own condition," says Aikman. "For me, the inescapable melancholy of the incident was twofold: that any student could be so distressed by the law of the land as to consider such chilling destructiveness the only source of redress, and that this sort of act is now a national commonplace...
Landan claims that "much of the onus for the oppressive social and political atmosphere in the Soviet Union today must necessarily rest with Stalin's successors." Who then was responsible for crushing the Kronstadt revolt of 1921, where revolutionary sailors called for implementation of Lenin's own slogan of "All Power to the Soviets" and were massacred by troops sent by Lenin and commanded by Trotsky? Who shifted the practice of the Third International from prompting international revolution to defending the national interests of the Soviet government and attempting to change the course of other revolutionary movements by executive fiat...
What I intended to point out is that Stalinism-or at least that aspect of institutional Stalinism which remains distinct from the personality of the man himself-cannot be divorced from its historical context. Suppression of the Kronstad? revolt followed an invasion of the Soviet Union by 14 nations. In view of Russia's own starvation and impoverishment, the need for the Soviet Communists to treat international revolution in terms of the national interest" became a great deal more urgent. And the remarkable threats which Japan and the Nazis posed to Soviet national security-in combination with Stalin...
...Still, in spite of the fact that it is straightforwardly facile, Mrs. Romm's commentary describes thoroughly- at times, sensationally- the development and growth of the radical movement during the past five years. Her smoothly flowing prose often becomes intensely descriptive, grappling momentarily with acutely perceptive insight. Describing the revolt against the technologized state for example, she notes Edmund Wilson's observation that "in times of social disorder literature becomes gothic." Thus, she writes, life is becoming macabre and grotesque as men sense frighteningly that their spell-binding super-technology, with its awesome unworking complexity, is rendering them helpless...
...austere, erect, onetime cavalry commander, Grechko has become the Kremlin's most effective enforcer. As Soviet commander in East Germany in 1953, he put down the first East bloc revolt against Communism. In 1968 his forces put an end to Czechoslovakia's "Springtime of Freedom," and he personally visited Prague the following year to oversee the removal of Reformer Alexander Dubcek from the leadership of the party. Czechoslovaks bitterly refer to the bullet-pocked facade of Prague's National Museum as "a fresco a la Grechko...