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By Michael Khodarkovsky

ISBN-10: 0253217709

ISBN-13: 9780253217707

Someone accustomed to the author’s first e-book the place Worlds Met (1992) needs to watch for examining this new quantity, that's a complete learn of Moscow’s kinfolk with the steppe nomads from the emergence of a Russian empire until eventually the last of the frontier three hundred years later. he'll now not be dissatisfied. within the author’s personal phrases, this publication is ready the transformation of a perilous frontier right into a a part of the empire and of its peoples into matters. definitely extra debatable is his selection to teach that Russia used to be no much less a colonial empire than any of the opposite western powers.

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This oppressive sense o f failure was not without its foundation in recent experience. As soon as Serge arrived in Mexico he paid the fa­ miliar penalty for his clairvoyance. His book on the Nazi aggression against Russia {Hitler contra Stalin) proved to be too frank for the public taste, since it predicted disastrous Soviet reverses in the early stages o f the war, with the peasants actually welcoming Hitler’s invad­ ers. As a result, the small firm that had published the book expired in ruin.

I kept finding the Racket, flourishing and sometimes salutary, in the age o f trade and in the midst o f revolu­ tion. We had yearned for a passionate, pure Socialism. We had satisfied ourselves with a Socialism of battle, and it was the great age of reform­ ism. At a special congress o f the Belgian Workers’ Party, Vandervelde,* young still, lean, dark, and full of fire, advocated the annexation of the Congo. We stood up in protest and left the hall, gesturing vehemently. Where could we go, what could become of us with this need for the absolute, this yearning for battle, this blind desire, against all obstacles, to escape from the city and the life from which there was no escape?

When you don’t have the genuine article, you live with the counterfeit. The co-op managers used to harass us. In his anger one o f them called us “tramps” because we were handing out leaflets in front of his shop. I can still recall our (bitter, bitter) sniggers. A Socialist, who used “tramp” as an insult. He would have chased Maxim Gorky* away! B. seemed important to me; I arranged to meet him. I was confronted by a very fat gentleman who 16 ■ M E M O I R S O F A R E V O L U T I O N A R Y was very keen to show me the plans o f the delightful house he was having built on favorably priced ground.

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