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George Fischer's study is undoubtedly a memorial to painstaking scholarship, especially since in the past its subject has been rudely buffeted about by the uninformed. Just a few years ago, for instance, people were muttering imprecations over General Vlasov and his cadres of anti-Stalinist Russians, pointing to their alliance with Hitler Germany and their treasonable assaults on our embattled ally. Recently, comment has changed in form, if not in error, with the public magnifying the numbers and effectiveness of this phantom army and the chances of domestic revolt it angures. Fischer has collected reams of facts, distilled them...
...represent them: O. John Rogge, an Assistant Attorney General (1939-40) in the Roosevelt Administration and special assistant to the Attorney General for the Nazi sedition trial of 1944. Rogge, once a darling of the Communists, is now the U.S. lawyer representing Marshal Tito's anti-Stalinist Communist government of Yugoslavia...
...Five years ago cannibal-conscious Aleksandrov was severely chastised and almost purged for preaching "a toothless vegetarianism" against highbrow critics of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist thinking...
Like so many of Stephen Spender's "generation of Hamlets" who saw the world out of order. Orwell went to Spain to fight in the menace of Fascism. He fought in the Trotskyite (POUM) militia was wounded and later fled the country when the Stalinist groups blackballed the POUM in their scramble for power. But he never shared the illusions of the generation: "Homage" is no "I was but I ain't any more" confession. It is rather a synthesis of remarkable portraits of a war of an historical transition and unconsciously...
...London Evening Standard and the Sydney Daily Telegraph, and entered Kharkov immediately after it was liberated by the Red Army, knows his facts and his scene. Five years ago he published A Room on the Route (TIME, March 3, 1947), one of the best fictional portraits of Stalinist terror ever written. By comparison, The Time of the Assassins is diffuse, but it is still a gripping novel in its own right...