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...openly demanded religious freedom for Russia's estimated 60 million Orthodox Christians. The writer's concern with the fate of the church is, in fact, recent. Although he was baptized in childhood, his faith scarcely survived the eleven years of prison and exile he endured under Stalin. A year ago, however, Solzhenitsyn received first communion in the Russian Orthodox Church...
Odajnyk attributed the 1965 arrests to the reversal of Krushchev's "de-Stalinization" movement upon his overthrow in 1964. "The rehabilitation of Stalin's policy adopted by the new leadership in 1965 was generated by the reaction of conservatives who had not reconciled themselves to the debunking of Stalin," Odajnyk said. "In May of that year, a tougher stance on national and cultural policies was announced, and in August the secret arrests of 30 intellectuals in various cities in the Ukraine took place," he added...
...late '20s, as a Central Committeeman, Trotsky became one of the principal opponents of Stalin's byzantine bureaucracy. In 1929, he was banished from Russian territory; in 1936, Stalin had him sentenced to death in absentia...
...nearly impossible to remain neutral about Trotsky. Stalin frothed on about him as the counterrevolutionary schemer. George Orwell personified him in Animal Farm as the loquacious pig Snowball, driven out by the dictator pig Napoleon and afterward blamed for everything that goes wrong on the farm. For decades, many liberal intellectuals have overheated their imaginations and their prose on an image of Trotsky as the unbending political outcast and talented literary man. To his closest followers, he was a saint who suffered his final martyrdom in Mexico on Aug. 20, 1940, when a Stalinist assassin buried an Alpine...
Split Hairs. A dramatic life, in the eye of great events. A dramatic death, with the ink barely dry on the Stalin-Hitler Pact. No wonder interest in Trotsky has persisted into the new revolutionary age. His history of the Russian Revolution is a Marxist classic. My Life, his tendentious autobiography, is a perennial paperback. Since January, at least four new books have been published about...