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... Russia of Stalin . It seemed madness , if not suicide , for a man like Mirsky voluntarily to return to Russia and put himself in the 1 One day when I was travelling by train along the south coast of Ceylon from Matara to Galle , on the ...
... Russia of Stalin . It seemed madness , if not suicide , for a man like Mirsky voluntarily to return to Russia and put himself in the 1 One day when I was travelling by train along the south coast of Ceylon from Matara to Galle , on the ...
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... Russia , the iron curtain , and the cold war ; the rise of fascism and nazism ; the failure of the League of Nations ; the menace of nuclear war ; the Hitlerian Götterdämmerung . In all this gloom the darkest spot seemed to me and to ...
... Russia , the iron curtain , and the cold war ; the rise of fascism and nazism ; the failure of the League of Nations ; the menace of nuclear war ; the Hitlerian Götterdämmerung . In all this gloom the darkest spot seemed to me and to ...
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... Russia . According to her account , the idealistic asceticism which Lenin had imposed upon the party was breaking up . What had attracted her in communism and what she had found in Lenin's Russia was the selfless dedica- tion of the ...
... Russia . According to her account , the idealistic asceticism which Lenin had imposed upon the party was breaking up . What had attracted her in communism and what she had found in Lenin's Russia was the selfless dedica- tion of the ...
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