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RUSSIA REVISITED A New Look at Russia and Her Satellites BY LOUIS FISCHER DOTJBLEDAY COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, N. Y., 1Q57 CONTENTS PART i Return to Russia 1. AT HOME IN MOSCOW 9 2. NEW LOOK, OLD FORM 21 3. MOSCOW AND MADISON AVENUE 2-8 4. REVOLT 40 5. THREE YOUNG COMMUNISTS 53 6. A CHAT WITH MIKOYAN 67 7. WHY DJS-STALINIZATION 74 8. OPIUM QO 9. POWER AND POVERTY 1O2 1O. RUSSIA AND THE WORLD 114 PART ii Trouble in the Satellites 11. HIGH EXPLOSIVE 125 12. THE FOUR LAGGARDS 141 13. THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE 156 14. POZNAN 163 15. SECRETS OF THE SECRET POLICE 176 16. THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN MOSCOW 189 3.7. THE BLOODLESS REVOLUTION 201 18. 1848, NOT ig 220 CONTENTS ig i A MACABRE DRAMA 239 20. HUNGARIAN OCTOBER 243 21. THE DIARY OF A REVOLUTION 249 22. THE TANKS THAT FAILED 264 23. RUSSIA IN RETREAT 269 INDEX 279 PART I RETURN TO RUSSIA A Personal Account CHAPTER 1 At Home in Moscow The saddest thing about journalism is that there is no substitute for being there absence compels the journal ist to be a historian. Twenty days in Moscow. Only twenty days, but they sufficed to breathe life into the dead body of material on the Soviet Union which I had gathered since I left the country in 1938, Post-Stalin Russia, in particular, be came a reality. My visa allowed me eight days. After my arrival I pleaded for an extension and received ten days more, then two days more. I decided to spend them all in Moscow, where I had resided from 1922 to 1938 with intervals for trips to America, Europe, and the Middle East and where, therefore, I hoped to meet old friends and make new contacts. I had promised myself, before returning to Russia, to go with an open mind and an open heart and not to seek support for previously expressed views. This was to be a new leaf, or a new book, and I would not care if what I learned upset or modified earlier ideas. I wanted information, not confirma tion, I wanted to look at Russia in the perspective of the thirty-four years since my first visit. My pur
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