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...himself back to both political and physical health and bided his time. During the 15 months he spent in the wilderness, he built up a coterie of devoted friends and followers who have supported him in all his political ventures since then. His closest administrative and political assistant, Lev Sukhanov, who has been with him since those dark days, flew personally to the Crimea last week to accompany Gorbachev back to Moscow...
...Social Revolutionary Alexander Kerensky, with the ideal of a Western-style democratic regime; and the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, a clashing spectrum of radical parties (mostly Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries, with a few Bolsheviks) holding Socialist aims. On this Socialist family drama, Author Sukhanov lavishes the meticulous attention which an American sometimes devotes to a close pennant race. He also studs his chronicle with high-level vignettes. Among the more vivid...
...Grey Blur. As Author Sukhanov describes the summer of 1917, it often seems that the de facto government of Russia was the crowd in the streets ("Everyone was demonstrating who wasn't too lazy!"). The crowd was fickle. When Lenin was tagged as a paid German agent by the opposition press, he took to the underground. Stalin, at the time, left only "the impression of a grey blur" on Sukhanov, "looming up now and then dimly and not leaving any trace...
...Sukhanov refused to become a Bolshevik and regarded Lenin and Trotsky as brazen adventurers, ignorant of the mas ter role of economics in "scientific Socialism." By October, Lenin and Trotsky were more intent on seizing power than sticking to strict Marxist theory. Ironically, they decided on a coup d'état in Sukhanov's own flat; Lenin showed up, still incognito, wearing a wig and without beard. Two weeks later, in what is known as the October revolution, the Bolsheviks marched friendly troops to key points and Trotsky sneeringly consigned opposition party members to the "dustbin of history...
...Sukhanov was hauled up in a dress rehearsal of the confession-and-purge trials to come. The charge : promoting Western military intervention to destroy the Soviet state. He pleaded guilty. Once in jail, however, he wrote an indignant appeal to the government - now run by the "grey blur" - and circulated a copy through the jail. Among other things, Sukhanov demanded that the GPU honor its promise "to release those willing to make untrue confessions." No one ever heard from him again...