Actually, I suspect the intelligentsia were the first to lose belief,
because they tended to be first in the firing line. Some - like Kirill
Simonov - were privileged mouthpieces, but even there it's kind of
debatable what "belief" meant after a certain time, beyond a drive for
survival. Still, it's kind of challenging to talk to people - eg,the
father of a friend of mine who was a working class Jewish Pole/Russian
- who still worship Stalin as a hero. x
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Sean Bonney <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> sorry, I should have said it was probably still possible to believe in the
> revolution if you were a fairly well off member of the intelligentsia. the
> peasantry would have disagreed quite heavily, I guess.
>
> S
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