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MORTIMER'S sympathies for the Party stemmed not from any love of Joe Stalin but from the street realities of a union organizer...
...entered its grimmest phase. He was spared the choices which faced other anticommunist leftists in the collision of the American and Soviet superstates. Orwell had tried desperately to carve out a place for a radical democratic socialism which would have no need either to defend the tergiversations of Stalin and his heirs in Moscow or to cling to American capitalism, which he regarded with contempt and horror. During the last years of his life he felt the opportunity for such a movement slipping away, and one is left to wonder how he would have responded when the Cold War began...
...sold 210,000 copies, to portray his heroes and heroines in the proper proletarian manner. "Some of our work needs to he rewritten and repolished," he said. "The times keep progressing, and our thinking must keep progressing." Teng is familiar with the major Russian works of the Lenin and Stalin eras, as well as with such writers as Chekhov, Pushkin, Hemingway, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. But he had never heard of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, or of any contemporary American novelists...
Beneath the enthusiasm evident all over China the visitor senses an almost palpable current of restraint and hesitancy-a whiff, perhaps, of the kind of fretful, nervous caution that pervaded Russia during the Stalin era. There is an echo of Stalinism in the prevalence of the cult of Mao, which overwhelms the visitor. The country seems slightly dazed, as if only recently emerged from shock therapy. There is a visible effort to blend in, not to be singled out because of deviant actions or opinions...
Wain is particularly acute on Orwell's impact on his contemporaries. Orwell saw through leftist cant and he saw through Stalin - which tended to make him unpopular with his natural allies...