This book is an inquiry into the possibilities of politics in
exile. Russian Mensheviks, driven out of Soviet Russia and their
party stripped of legal existence, functioned abroad in the
West--in Berlin, Paris, and New York--for an entire generation. For
several years they also continued to operate underground in Soviet
Russia. Bereft of the usual advantages of political actors, the
Mensheviks succeeded in impressing their views upon social
democratic parties and Western thinking about the Soviet Union.
The Soviet experience through the eyes of its first socialist
victims is recreated here for the first time from the vast
storehouse of archival materials and eyewitness interviews. The
exiled Mensheviks were the best informed and most perceptive
observers of the Soviet scene through the 1920s and 1930s. From
today's perspective the Mensheviks' analyses and reflections
strikingly illuminate the causes of the failure of the Soviet
experiment.
This book also probes the fate of Marxism and democratic
socialism as it tracks the activities and writings of a remarkable
group of men and women--including Raphael Abramovitch, Fedor and
Lidia Dan, David Dallin, Boris Nicolaevsky, Solomon Schwarz, and
Vladimir Woytinsky--entangled in the most momentous events of this
century. Their contribution to politics and ideas in the age of
totalitarianism merits scrutiny, and their story deserves to be
told.
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