Political Pilgrims, by Paul Hollander by Leonard Schapiro There is nothing new about travelers in countries other than their own returning with exaggerated, and often ludicrous, accounts of…
Within the Whirlwind, by Eugenia Ginzburg by Leonard Schapiro The author, a university lecturer in Kazan, was thirty-one in 1937 when she was arrested on a trumped-up charge of…
Was Lenin Necessary? by Leonard Schapiro It is a hundred years since Communism became a practical aim, and nearly fifty years since the October revolution in…