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...when the Russian Revolution broke out, they were living in an $18-a-month apartment in Manhattan. Within a few months, the itinerant revolutionary was Red Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, then organizer of the Red army and Lenin's No. 1 man, incorruptible, sarcastic, ruthless. Ten years later, having lost in the struggle for power with Joseph Stalin, Trotsky and his wife were chased out of Russia. They finally found refuge in Mexico where, in 1940, a Stalinist agent drove a pickax into the brain of Leon Trotsky...
...conducting in Germany, England and France. In 1909, already rich* and respected, he went back to Russia to head the Imperial Music Society's concerts in St. Petersburg. His reputation as a conductor spread throughout Russia, but in 1920 he fled to Paris ("I left Russia because of Lenin and Trotsky; I had a million dollars, and they took it from...
...idea content, Barbary Shore is perched on the stilts of four fallacies: 1) that there is nothing to choose between the Russian "system" and the U.S. "system," 2) that the Russian Revolution was "betrayed," i.e., Lenin was O.K., but Stalin spoiled everything, 3) that the complex problem of evil is a simple matter of economic inequity, i.e., "empty bellies," and 4) that "men enter into social and economic relations independent of their wills...
MARSHALL: "There was no doubt [in my mind] that the leadership of this group were Marxist Communists and so stated in my presence and insisted, in my presence, that they were. And when I visited Yenan . . . over the proscenium arch [of the meeting hall] was a large picture of Lenin and a large picture of Stalin...
...Lenin's attitude, however, gradually changed. Sorokin was offered a position in the Bolshevik Government. He refused, accepting instead his old professorship at the University of St. Petersburg. "Unfortunately," he remarked wryly, "you cannot teach Sociology without political implications...