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...Guilt." So last week began the second meeting of this session of the Supreme Soviet. The budget had been received and debated; custom called for a report on foreign affairs, made at the last session by Premier Georgy Malenkov. Instead, putty-nosed Alexander Volkov, Chairman of the Council of the Union, stepped forward to the rostrum. He had, he said, a communication from Comrade Malenkov. Volkov began reading from a paper in hand...
...five U.S. correspondents in Moscow, the meeting last week of Russia's Supreme Soviet was a quiet story-until Chairman Volkov stepped forward and read Malenkov's resignation. Led by United Press Correspondent Kenneth Brodney. the newsmen bolted for the door, raced down four flights of stairs, and ran across three large Kremlin courtyards to their cars. While they scribbled notes, Russian chauffeurs sped them over the city's slush-covered streets to the Central Telegraph Office. Brodney got there first, put through a phone call to London and scored a clean 19-minute beat...
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...
...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...
...dismissed, eventually shot as a "traitor." He was replaced by Robert In-drikovich Eikhe, who was hailed with press panegyrics as the right man for the right job. Commissar Eikhe was soon after heckled as a "harmer," later "disappeared." His successor in a few months' time was Commissar Volkov, but he too soon lost his job. After that the office went begging for occupants...