One Who Survived (Paperback)

ONE WHO quot- quot i-i quot amp lt quot ., amp gt amp gt quot 1, ., quot i ., quot 1, o quot fl Russian under the yiets By ALEXANDER BARMINE With an Introduction by MAX EASTMAN G. P. PUTNAM S SONS NEW YORK TO MARI SFP r amp gt 1047 Contents INTRODUCTION BY MAX EASTMAN xl BOOK I 1. AT MY POST IN GREECE 3 2. THE TRAP 1O 3. IN HIDING iy BOOK II 4. CHILDHOOD 29 5. WAR AND REVOLUTION 35 6. INVASIONS 42 7. WANDERINGS 48 8. CIVIL WAR 52 9. RED CADETS 60 10. LESSONS UNDER FIRE 69 1 1, WE DID NOT TAKE WARSAW 7 12. THE WAR COLLEGE OF THE RED STAR 8l lg. THE COLLEGE IN TIME OF CRISIS 91 14. THE BOLSHEVIK, MISSION TO THE FEUDAL ORIENT 98 15 FROM THE AFGHAN FRONTIER TO THE CAF DE PEGASSE 1O6 16. THE BEGINNINGS OF SOVIET DIPLOMACY 11 17. MUTTERINGS OF THE STORM 124 18. BORN INTO SORROW BOOK III ig. AT GRIPS WITH DIPLOMATIC PROBLEMS 139 2O. PERSIA WILL NOT BE A REPUBLIC 1. 6 2 1 TEHERAN ATHENS ROME BERLIN MOSCO V 152 - 22. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST TROTSKYISM AND FOREIGN STA TIONERY 23. THE TRIUMPH OF quot PARTY UNITY 165 4. PARIS, THE GREAT PLAN, AND THE BATTLE FOR GOLD Ij2 25. IN THE BOURGEOIS ENCIRCLEMENT 179 2 6. MILAN LONDON BRUSSELS 1 88 27. REALITIES UNDER THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN ig6 28. BUREAUCRATIC DEGENERATION 2C 6 9. OLD FRIENDS MEET 217 30. TRIALS OF AN ARMS EXPORTER 224 31. THE BIRTH OF PARACHUTE TROOPS 233 32. AN AUTOMOBILE EXECUTIVE IN THE MESHES OF BUREAUC RACY 2 OH 33. quot LIFE HAS BECOME MORE JOYFUL, COMRADES quot 245 34. STALIN AS I KNEW HIM 256 35. THE ONE PRECIOUS LIFE 267 36. A DIPLOMAT S PARADISE 273 37. LIVING THROUGH THE FIRST MOSCOW TRIAL 282 38. MY LAST TRIP x6 RUSSIA 2QO 3Q. THE ARTS FLOURISH UNDER A DICTATOR 297 40. THE SOCIALIST DREAM ENDS IN FIRING SQUADS 306 EPILOGUE j o INDEXIllustrations ALEXANDER BARMINE Frontispiece Facing page THE SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL 8 MAXIM LITVINOV, GREGORY SOKOLNIKOV, AND NICOLAI KRESTINSKY 9 THE FIRST FIVE MARSHALS OF THE SOVIET UNION 9 RUSHEN ESHREF UNAIDIN, HIS WIFE, ALEXANDER BARMINE, AND M. KOBETSKY 2 6 MIKHAIL KOBETSKY, ALEXANDER BARMINE, MME. KOBETSKY, AND HER NEPHEW 2 6 MAKING A BONFIRE FROM THE IMPERIAL GOLDEN EAGLES AND CROWNS FROM OFFICIAL BUILDINGS, PETROGRAD 27 CHRISTIAN RAKOVSKY 88 FEDOR RASKOLNIKOV 88 GENERAL DIMITRI SCHMIDT 89 NIKOLAI KRYLENKO 89 GEORGE CHICHERIN 1J 6 CONSTANTIN YURENEV 1X 6 GREGORY ZINOVIEV 7 LEON KAMENEV 11 7 VALERIAN DOVGALEVSKY, MARCEL ROSENBERG, AND FRENCH PREMIER EDOUARD HERRIOT 1 7 LEON KARAKHAN AND ISMET INONU 1 79 SEVEN PRESIDENTS OF THE SOVIET UNION 244 AxXADY ROSENGOLZ SERGEI KIROV ALEXANDER BARMINE AND HIS WIFE, 1941 3 12 ALEXANDER BARMINE AS A PRIVATE IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY 3 12 SCENE OF THE MOSCOW TRIAL 3 3 STALIN, MOLOTOV, AND VON RIBBENTROP 3 3 Introduction THIS BOOK IS, in my opinion, the most important that could be written on the socialist experiment in Russia. Barmine is the sole man left in the world who can relate, and dares to, with the authority of theoretic understanding, intimate and diversified experience, unbroken morale, irreproachable integrity, and scientific detachment, the inside story of that experiment from the revolution to the great purge. He is the only man left to weigh in the scales of civilized intelligence the results as seen from the inside and the method as actually applied. This will seem an extreme statement only to those who do not realize the extent of Stalin s extermination of the elite. There may be some precocious stenographer or confidentialsecretary, farsighted enough to have kept mum and retired into a cyclone cellar, who will crawl out with a true and significant memoir when the dictatorship passes. It is impossible not to hope for this. But so far as the thing could be accomplished with the help of research experts and the secret police, incorruptible intelligence combined with inside knowledge was exterminated in Soviet Russia, and in all its embassies and legations, with meticulous and ruthless care...