Word: bolshevik
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When he goes to the third floor of the Kremlin, he must always turn to the right -Stalin's office is on the left. Once, Mark sees Stalin publicly humiliate Old Bolshevik Volkov in accents of pretended joviality. ("Still alive, old fellow? But creaking? Don't worry; an old tree creaks a long time before it snaps, doesn't it?") Mark dreams of assassinating the Beloved Leader, but Volkov dissuades him: "The point is not to kill Stalin, but to destroy his system." "Deny It." In describing the purges, Novelist Soloviev throws in some sensational details which...
...tempestuous vigor of his story tends to blur the fact that few of Soloviev's characters have any individual flavor or depth. Mark Surov is more a window opening on to Russia than a credible person; most of the others are stock villains or victims. Only the Old Bolshevik Volkov, apparently modeled on Nikolai Bukharin, comes to life. And appropriately, it is he who carries the meaning of the book: "We, my boy," he tells Surov, "are the victims of our own crime...
...scraped into World War I as a subaltern at the age of 18, made the retreat from the Somme. In 1919 he was part of a hush-hush force in the Caspian Sea area which helped defend the White Russian fleet from Bolshevik attack: "All pretty unsatisfactory from a political point of view, though great fun for a young officer." Now he likes to say that he is the "only senior British officer who ever fought the Russians." Between the world wars, he played polo and rode to hounds, became bayonet-fighting champion of the British army, made...
...from Russian newspapers and magazines. Like Russian specialists on other U.S. newspapers and magazines, Dallin gets his view of things behind the Iron Curtain by piecing together bits of news and information in Soviet periodicals. Recently, Dallin reported an alarming discovery; Federal Government bureaus had seized such magazines as Bolshevik (which changed its name this month to Kommunist) and Ogonek, thus depriving Dallin and others of an "important source of knowledge and weapon in the cold...
...World War II armies, trotted into Moscow's Red Square last week. He had not been seen in a big Moscow ceremony since the great parade celebrating the October revolution, four years ago. Last week he was back to lead the parade for the 35th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power and to lecture the massed troops on foreign "warmongers...