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A Sojourn in Stalinist Siberia

A Sojourn in Stalinist Siberia SIDNEY HOROWITZ (Long Island, NY, U.S.A.) A SOJOURN IN STALINIST SIBERIA Ante Ciliga. The Russian Enigma. Part one translated by F. Fermier and A. Cliff; Part two translated by M. and H. Dewar. London: Ink Links Limited. 1979. 573 pp. $15.95 paper. At first glance, these memoirs appear as an earlier specimen of GULag literature. From the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, a plethora of anti-Soviet and later anti-Stalinist tracts poured forth ranging from reactionary polemics to those of the disillusional true believers on the left: Goldman, Eastman, Koestler and Trotskii himself, inter alia. Ciliga certainly belonged to the latter; indeed he was of the extreme left. Like so many sympathizers with the brave new Soviet republic, he decided to see the beacon of hope for him- self in 1926. He arrived bearing impeccable credentials-member of the Politbureau of the Yugoslav Communist Party, secretary of the Croatian Communist Party, delegate of the Yugoslav section of the Comintern, participant of the Profintern and member of MOPR (The International Society for Aid to the Proletariat). By his own admission, the author had been a starry-eyed ideal- ist who believed in the possibility of emancipating the toiling masses and constructing a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post Soviet Review Brill

A Sojourn in Stalinist Siberia

Horowitz, Sidney
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review , Volume 19 (1): 275 – Jan 1, 1992
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© 1992 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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SIDNEY HOROWITZ (Long Island, NY, U.S.A.) A SOJOURN IN STALINIST SIBERIA Ante Ciliga. The Russian Enigma. Part one translated by F. Fermier and A. Cliff; Part two translated by M. and H. Dewar. London: Ink Links Limited. 1979. 573 pp. $15.95 paper. At first glance, these memoirs appear as an earlier specimen of GULag literature. From the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, a plethora of anti-Soviet and later anti-Stalinist tracts poured forth ranging from reactionary polemics to those of the disillusional true believers on the left: Goldman, Eastman, Koestler and Trotskii himself, inter alia. Ciliga certainly belonged to the latter; indeed he was of the extreme left. Like so many sympathizers with the brave new Soviet republic, he decided to see the beacon of hope for him- self in 1926. He arrived bearing impeccable credentials-member of the Politbureau of the Yugoslav Communist Party, secretary of the Croatian Communist Party, delegate of the Yugoslav section of the Comintern, participant of the Profintern and member of MOPR (The International Society for Aid to the Proletariat). By his own admission, the author had been a starry-eyed ideal- ist who believed in the possibility of emancipating the toiling masses and constructing a

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