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...Moscow he was just an obscure member of the Central Communist Committee. On the closing day of the Conference last week even that post was taken away from him. Ousted with three other Committee members for "inability to discharge obligations," Comrade Litvinoff, an old revolutionary who had worked with Lenin on the early Communist Iskra (Spark), who once played the fence for money stolen in a train robbery by Comrade Stalin, who was the only moderate to push his way to the top through the ranks of rabid 100 percenters...
...been unemployed many days before he ran into a friend named Bakmeteff, who had just been appointed Ambassador to the United States by Kerensky. Bakmeteff asked him to be secretary to the Embassy. They wouldn't be gone long. Six months, perhaps. This was in May. By November, Lenin had overthrown Kerensky and the Russian Embassy was left floating in Washington with no government to stand on. In 1922 the Embassy agreed to disband and each person went off on his own. Karpovitch was again without a job. He could have gone back to Russia, but he thought the Bolshevik...
...proletariat. The book is important because: 1) it is one of the few biographies of Robespierre in English; 2) into its 417 pages Biographer Korngold squeezes a synoptic history of the jumbled French Revolution for which Carlyle required two volumes; 3) it shows Robespierre as the prototype of Lenin and Hitler...
Robespierre did not make the Revolution, as Napoleon said, but he did "drive many people to madness who without him merely would have been fools." He followed the now-familiar course-from reformer to revolutionist. Like Lenin he transmuted a rabid hatred of his own class into a social system based (at first) on a sentimental love for the proletariat. Like both Lenin and Hitler, Robespierre knew that revolutions never stop at the point where reformers would like to freeze them. And he thoroughly understood revolutionary politics. "To dare!" he said, "is all the politics of the Revolution." His attitude...
...decade beginning this year it remains to be seen whether Lenin was right, whether the U. S. literary liberals will bring their intelligence to bear effectively on the side of democracy. Already they had made a beginning. Waldo Frank had written one guide in his Chart For Rough Water. Mumford had written another in his simple and moving book Faith for Living, while in seven words he phrased what until then millions of his countrymen had felt obscurely: "The struggle is for the human soul...