By Thomas Riha
ISBN-10: 0226718573
ISBN-13: 9780226718576
"This new and enlarged model of Readings in Russian Civilization is the results of relatively broad revisions. There are actually seventy two rather than sixty four goods; 20 of the choices are new. the 1st quantity has passed through the least swap with three new goods, of which 2 look in English for the 1st time. within the moment quantity there are 6 new goods; them all look in English for the 1st time. The 3rd quantity has passed through the best revision, with eleven new goods, of which 6 are newly translated from the Russian. it's the editor's desire that goods passed over within the new version usually are not sorely neglected, and that the recent decisions will come in handy and illuminating. the purpose, all through, has been to hide components of information and sessions which were missed within the first variation, and to incorporate themes that are vital within the learn of the Russian earlier and current. "The bibliographical headnotes were enlarged, with the end result that there at the moment are nearly two times as many entries as within the outdated variation. New citations comprise not just works that have seemed on the grounds that 1963, but additionally older books and articles that have come to the editor's attention."—From the Editor's Preface ". . . a really appropriate blend of seminal works and newer commentaries that achieves the editor's objective of stimulating interest and constructing some degree of view."—C. Bickford O'Brien, The Russian evaluate "These 3 volumes hide rather good the most sessions of Russian civilization. the alternative of the articles and different fabric is made through a reliable and independent scholar."—Ivan A. Lopatin, Professor of Asian and Slavic stories, college of Southern California
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Plekhanov's just as much one of us," some one replied. " On one occasion we were on our way to a restaurant, when a worker, a Menshevik, stopped Lenin to ask him a question. Ilyitch dropped behind while the party went on. He entered the restaurant frowning, five minutes later, and said: "Curious that such a simpleton should have got into the Party Congress. He asked me, what was after all the real reason for the discussion. 'This is what it is,' I said to him. " Several of us always had our meals together in the same cheap little restaurant.
I still see vividly before me the bare walls of a wooden church on the outskirts of London, unadorned to the point of absurdity, the lancet windows of a small, narrow hall which might have heen a classroom in a poor school. • I had never met Lenin before this, nor read as much of him as I ought to have done. But what I had managed to read, and above all the enthusiastic accounts of those who knew him personally, had attracted me strongly towards him. When we were introduced, he shook me heartily hy the hand, and, scrutinizing me with his keen eyes and speaking in the tone of an old acquaintance, he said jocularly: "So glad you've come.
517 518 Days with Lenin renounces all the pleasures of life in order to toil for the happiness of mankind. What I wrote about him directly after his death, when I was overwhelmed with grief, was hastily written and inadequate. There were things which I could not write then because of considerations of tact, which, I hope, are fully com, prehensible. " THE FIRST MEETING The unsatisfactory character of my former reminiscences was increased by the presence of many bad gaps and inconsistencies. I ought to have begun with the London Congress,2 when the figure of Vladimir Ilyitch stood out in strong relief against a background of doubt and mistrust, of open hostility and even of hate.
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