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quot i ., quot 1, o quot fl Russian under the yiets By ALEXANDER
BARMINE With an Introduction by MAX EASTMAN G. P. PUTNAM S SONS NEW
YORK TO MARI SFP r amp gt 1047 Contents INTRODUCTION BY MAX EASTMAN
xl BOOK I 1. AT MY POST IN GREECE 3 2. THE TRAP 1O 3. IN HIDING iy
BOOK II 4. CHILDHOOD 29 5. WAR AND REVOLUTION 35 6. INVASIONS 42 7.
WANDERINGS 48 8. CIVIL WAR 52 9. RED CADETS 60 10. LESSONS UNDER
FIRE 69 1 1, WE DID NOT TAKE WARSAW 7 12. THE WAR COLLEGE OF THE
RED STAR 8l lg. THE COLLEGE IN TIME OF CRISIS 91 14. THE BOLSHEVIK,
MISSION TO THE FEUDAL ORIENT 98 15 FROM THE AFGHAN FRONTIER TO THE
CAF DE PEGASSE 1O6 16. THE BEGINNINGS OF SOVIET DIPLOMACY 11 17.
MUTTERINGS OF THE STORM 124 18. BORN INTO SORROW BOOK III ig. AT
GRIPS WITH DIPLOMATIC PROBLEMS 139 2O. PERSIA WILL NOT BE A
REPUBLIC 1. 6 2 1 TEHERAN ATHENS ROME BERLIN MOSCO V 152 - 22. THE
STRUGGLE AGAINST TROTSKYISM AND FOREIGN STA TIONERY 23. THE TRIUMPH
OF quot PARTY UNITY 165 4. PARIS, THE GREAT PLAN, AND THE BATTLE
FOR GOLD Ij2 25. IN THE BOURGEOIS ENCIRCLEMENT 179 2 6. MILAN
LONDON BRUSSELS 1 88 27. REALITIES UNDER THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN ig6 28.
BUREAUCRATIC DEGENERATION 2C 6 9. OLD FRIENDS MEET 217 30. TRIALS
OF AN ARMS EXPORTER 224 31. THE BIRTH OF PARACHUTE TROOPS 233 32.
AN AUTOMOBILE EXECUTIVE IN THE MESHES OF BUREAUC RACY 2 OH 33. quot
LIFE HAS BECOME MORE JOYFUL, COMRADES quot 245 34. STALIN AS I KNEW
HIM 256 35. THE ONE PRECIOUS LIFE 267 36. A DIPLOMAT S PARADISE 273
37. LIVING THROUGH THE FIRST MOSCOW TRIAL 282 38. MY LAST TRIP x6
RUSSIA 2QO 3Q. THE ARTS FLOURISH UNDER A DICTATOR 297 40. THE
SOCIALIST DREAM ENDS IN FIRING SQUADS 306 EPILOGUE j o
INDEXIllustrations ALEXANDER BARMINE Frontispiece Facing page THE
SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL 8 MAXIM LITVINOV, GREGORY SOKOLNIKOV, AND
NICOLAI KRESTINSKY 9 THE FIRST FIVE MARSHALS OF THE SOVIET UNION 9
RUSHEN ESHREF UNAIDIN, HIS WIFE, ALEXANDER BARMINE, AND M. KOBETSKY
2 6 MIKHAIL KOBETSKY, ALEXANDER BARMINE, MME. KOBETSKY, AND HER
NEPHEW 2 6 MAKING A BONFIRE FROM THE IMPERIAL GOLDEN EAGLES AND
CROWNS FROM OFFICIAL BUILDINGS, PETROGRAD 27 CHRISTIAN RAKOVSKY 88
FEDOR RASKOLNIKOV 88 GENERAL DIMITRI SCHMIDT 89 NIKOLAI KRYLENKO 89
GEORGE CHICHERIN 1J 6 CONSTANTIN YURENEV 1X 6 GREGORY ZINOVIEV 7
LEON KAMENEV 11 7 VALERIAN DOVGALEVSKY, MARCEL ROSENBERG, AND
FRENCH PREMIER EDOUARD HERRIOT 1 7 LEON KARAKHAN AND ISMET INONU 1
79 SEVEN PRESIDENTS OF THE SOVIET UNION 244 AxXADY ROSENGOLZ SERGEI
KIROV ALEXANDER BARMINE AND HIS WIFE, 1941 3 12 ALEXANDER BARMINE
AS A PRIVATE IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY 3 12 SCENE OF THE MOSCOW
TRIAL 3 3 STALIN, MOLOTOV, AND VON RIBBENTROP 3 3 Introduction THIS
BOOK IS, in my opinion, the most important that could be written on
the socialist experiment in Russia. Barmine is the sole man left in
the world who can relate, and dares to, with the authority of
theoretic understanding, intimate and diversified experience,
unbroken morale, irreproachable integrity, and scientific
detachment, the inside story of that experiment from the revolution
to the great purge. He is the only man left to weigh in the scales
of civilized intelligence the results as seen from the inside and
the method as actually applied. This will seem an extreme statement
only to those who do not realize the extent of Stalin s
extermination of the elite. There may be some precocious
stenographer or confidentialsecretary, farsighted enough to have
kept mum and retired into a cyclone cellar, who will crawl out with
a true and significant memoir when the dictatorship passes. It is
impossible not to hope for this. But so far as the thing could be
accomplished with the help of research experts and the secret
police, incorruptible intelligence combined with inside knowledge
was exterminated in Soviet Russia, and in all its embassies and
legations, with meticulous and ruthless care...
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