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Peking to Paris. Fabian recalls that as a young man in 1918 he heard Lenin in Petrograd make the famed speech in which he surveyed the Communist course to world triumph. "The road to Paris leads through Peking, the road to London through New Delhi." The warning he draws is not merely political and military; present also is the moral point that tyranny and injustice anywhere are the enemy of freedom and order anywhere...
Washington was warm during 1917, but things were decidedly hotter in Petrograd. On the night of October 24 Lenin and a well-organized group of Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government and proclaimed themselves the new rulers of Russia. News of the revolt shocked the whole world, but it positively astounded the members of the Russian embassy in Washington. On the next day Karpovich himself decoded a cable from Trotsky, in which the Bolshevik leader said that if the diplomats there would recognize the new regime they might continue to represent Russia, but if not, would they please vacate the embassy...
...Stations Everyone!" It is difficult to believe, in 1955, how casual were the beginnings of the Soviet nightmare. In late February 1917, hoodlums, soapbox orators and strikers swirled through the streets of Petrograd. By a kind of spontaneous combustion, troops joined the demonstrators and fired on the police. Anarchy and heady illusion were in the air: "Ahead everything was completely different, unknown, wonderful . . . Surely all this was an illusion, nonsense, all a dream. Wasn't it time to wake...
Columnist Sokolsky became involved with Communism a long time ago. Born in Utica, N.Y., the son of a rabbi, he graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism and was so attracted by the Russian Revolution that he went to Russia in 1917 to see it firsthand. In Petrograd he got a job editing the English-language Russian Daily News. But after the Bolsheviks seized control from the Kerensky government, he quickly became disillusioned with the revolution and fled to China. There he worked for English-language newspapers, later became a special correspondent, whose reports appeared in U.S. and British dailies...
...first issue of Pravda came out in 1912. Molotov was soon arrested and exiled to Siberia. When the Revolution came in 1917, he was a hunted escapee, hiding in Petrograd with a faked passport. He cheered on the revolutionary masses when the Czarist government collapsed, organized the Petrograd Soviet...