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...autumn of 1917, in Smolny Institute in Petrograd, Nikolai Lenin quietly said: We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist State...
When the train of history makes a sharp turn, said Lenin, the passengers who do not have a good grip on their seats are thrown off. Last week the Communist Limited had just about completed the dizzy turn from the Communazi Pact to the Battle of Britain, and U. S. literary liberals were spattered all over the right of way. As the Red Express hooted off into the shades of a closing decade, ex-fellow travelers rubbed their bruises, wondered how they had ever come to get aboard. Observers wondered if they had learned enough to switch to the democratic...
With the exception of Granville Hicks, probably none of these people was a Communist. They were fellow travelers who wanted to help fight fascism. How should they know that Lenin was the first fascist and that they were cooperating with the party from which the Nazis had borrowed all their important methods and ideas...
...Lenin had warned: "The counterrevolution develops in exact proportion as the revolution develops." Better than anybody, Communists knew that the experience of the ex-fellow travelers was by no means wasted, feared that the Party had trained a group of men who would one day help to destroy it. The literary intellectuals might be slow, lazy, self-important, unpractical, fussy or funny, but they had reached their convictions, "not without years in the wilderness and days of blindness." Above all they were articulate...
...strange happened to Alexander Alexandroff. A reticent man, six feet tall, brown-haired, who had served in the Tsar's diplomatic corps, he had wound up with a job in the foreign department of a Manhattan bank. In Russia's great year, as Kerensky gave way to Lenin, Alexander Alexandroff quit his job, moved into a small store building on Manhattan's East Side, and painted a dingy sign, "Steamship Agent," on his window...