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...Reynolds, founder of the giant tobacco company, Reynolds enjoyed a privileged prep-school upbringing in Connecticut and Florida. But in the five years since he stubbed out his last cigarette, the sometime TV-and-film actor has become a militant antismoker. Now Reynolds has co-written, with author Tom Shachtman, The Gilded Leaf (Little, Brown; $19.95), a moralistic tale about a fortune built on tobacco and dissipated by reckless heirs. Says Reynolds: "The hand that fed me is the tobacco industry, and that same hand has killed millions of people...
Russia is no longer a truly socialist country, Max Shachtman, a founder of the American Communist Party, said last night, speaking in Burr A on "Fifty Years of Soviet Rule: Worker's Paradise Lost...
...could imagine a bleaker outcome of the promises of 1917," he said. In 1917 socialists were sure that world revolution was imminent. By 1923 this hope had dimmed, but there was still promise in the "unique Bolshevik revolution." With the Stalinist counter-revolution, this possibility, too, was gone, Shachtman said...
...order to modernize Russia, the resistance of the people had to be eliminated, Shachtman said. Modernization was accompanied by the greatest expansion of bureaucracy ever seen anywhere, he continued...
...Shachtman, one-time personal secretary of Leon Trotsky and a founder of the American Communist Party, will speak on "Fifty Years of Soviet Rule: Workers' Paradise Lost?" at 8 p.m. tonight in Burr...