Solzhenitsyn and Lenin  

Solzhenitsyn’s most recent book, Lenin in Zurich, is presented as one that will enrich the great historical fresco begun with his August 1914. Although the author calls his current work a novel, he is careful to affirm its historicity by …



Gorky, Censorship and the Jews  

Lenin’s death in 1924 produced in the Soviet Union a flood of apologies, memoirs and eulogies, no less sincere because their author had criticized Lenin on previous occasions. Among them was Gorky, who paid tribute to Lenin in many moving …



A Point of History  

The celebrated episode of the trip of the `Bolshevik leaders” across Germany within a “sealed train” has caused as much ink to run as the accusation of being in the pay of the Kaiser, examined below. But the episode is …