Lenin state have been hunred down and historians Reading the 700 pages of not a very satisfactory form this imaginary diary (half novel, half autobiography wrviy in another contest) revolution was lar Iroma shows that the Russan 20_JUNE 1917 exterminated succeed:
importance of the intervention Instead we see the viral role al thousands of dedicared revolutionaries (of whom of the Bolshevik Party in shaping the future ol the Russian masses, the 'inevitable':
39 the bed after making love with: certainly believe the report that time with the shout Sians baya, attempt to portray the personal One question: is it truth or human in his weaknesses (af was tine of the most galling): Belion that Lenin Icapt from which his attitude to women Tnessa Armand for the first in Lenin's life. to build s picture of a real person, Inessa. rolled out of bed it's the dialectic!" I can • laughing person of extreme foresight this middle-aged state functionary! criticism is that we know Lenin scheming distances lenin more her? write a chary. Indeed, lie internal and external, besetting Ending with the preparation of possible — il is better to forget rather sketchily covered, as his activity as a potential sccurity his Tecament, later suppressed portraval of a life dedicated to a detail chan hand it across to (While Lenin cerrainly was a inspiring in its description Of risk. Write down as Tirtle as by the burcaucracy, this is it may well have seen such an and more from the dangers. the cause of revolution, and The years after 1922 arc failing health and Stalin's victory agaist great odds: Probably the strongest Inessa Armand - did she fall out of bed laughing? the Redgling Soviet state: It is caprivating in its is mavbe a bit much!) novel convincing in its the enemy" trait in Lenin's personality that young Ulyanos before deciding astutely predicts the manner of insight found in Lenin himself. "psychological", attempting to Beginning in 1886, the first depth of strategic and tactical what this goal shmald be. It is attempt on the life of the isar part of the book is rarher too "Unlortunately I Have nuc got 4 chosen goal' muses the populist methods of struggle and decide on the need for a prove it was some obsessive haemorrhage like his father revolutionary working class trifle pat and unconvincing his own death (from a brain Some of this is perhaps a which leads Lenin to reject led to his dechication to the brother for an amateurish canbalmine dressed like n the execution of his alder before tum) and his later The young Lenin rather revolutionary cause. party. King interest in the events of Lenin's Nadhezhada Krupskaya and Social Revolutionaries, we time, this book must be one of development of the Bolsheviks. of the imperialist war. Evident struggle is described, analysed look at the treacherous role of international and the progress spirit of plasmost evident in the and related to the growth and Sevenry years on, with the debates with the Mensheviks Sotier Union and a renewed Each twist and turn in the throughout is the incredible Lenin was one of the most enjoyable insights into the We are raken through the the leaders al the socialist the must accessible and years from 1905-1917 brilliant).
servants. -and the rest of the social composition: there were singular feature of this was its spoke perfect French, but lew population. This limited caeir memberslip was drawn from happened to be in Egypt. All jewisle bourgcoisic — Camel augmented by due or two among the children of the language of their parents" foreign communists who A conscious policy of no arab members! The had mastered arabi was no execprinn - mass appeal! A man apart was rocognising the strivings of HENRI CURTEL, was the son of chcorerical insight —ar least in who did not speak arabic until invariably wore shorts. A Jew an Feyptian millionaire who Gilles Perrault, A man apart, he was an adult (and, then, heavily accented), his chief journalist Gilles Perrault — the Feyprian masses for this account by French JOE SCARLET Zed Press. $7.95 independence.
(reportedly) Nasam's personal support, Cariel was unable mo: strength ot reactamary leeling against bin. Of his erstwhile with the new regime and one return to Egypt owing to the Despite dus intervention: minister in Sadar scabinet. members made their peace Tantadismels, the book comrades, some of the provisionaliv. in 145b. however, and despite But this story stops. nearly all the jows and mans of Cure was in enforced exile ul Paris, as a result of the violent insuccessful and the die was 'introduced' anti-comitism to cast for che repression of the the communiss from Egypt. establishment of the Israeli By this came, along with attempi at a further roup Eeproand rhe reen of the In a conse, the ronists against Nasser was state in 1917 TelL uprising forced a British retreat movchcat was something ofan Egyptianisation advocated be monopolised by the multi-class the workers of a kev industrial short of the ercation of a mass Ward in 1966, a spontaneuts complex in Cairo — did bear - THEN TO Political opposition to the chunmunists, outside cil the some frut although falling Cariel Jollowed by one of to the canal zone, This colonin masters was hastone step for the 'Shubra-isacion" movemen account of the struggle to build a revolutionary organisation in biographical subject, until you key founder of the cornmunist Sudan, the cducator of the left French Connuunist Party and Now that's more interesting movement in both Reypt and wing of Nasser's "free officer Icar thar Curiel was alen the movement, ostracised by the mysteriously assassinated in: consequently the rest of the A man apart is a fascinating Scarecly a promising stalinist world and Paris in 1978.
unilerground nerwork he set up peace, and the operasion of the concludes: Henry Cunch's bic story continucs in volume Trof A man porto be pablished te Led Books Ir covers Curel's: elons to secore a middle cast tu trati multines of Tesistance exile in France, Is achilies movements throughout the perhaps to his misterous Telled against him, and meiwork which lorito the for the Algerian FLN. his world. Ir was this secret thrarah worki. Significantly. t In Trance, Curie dedicared scarcely numera enaligh to could say the same of most of Himself to aganising support ano-pent who supplied middle cast. Cairo's 100.000 for lus imprisoned contrades. was this unri-sumitism which fill onesiagoger. and onc isorkers like their Figyptian was mobilised to smash the arah neighhours are now In 1956. However, it was. jews, most of them poor Coric ibe putriot and sovereiguy: uniqucly, also. he others were lonming discussion (indeed such were his personal The communist movernetit Virtually alone on the:left, importance of organisine for powers of personion that he control of the Wold tiey had sever acheved its poicatial: anti- wuperalist demand of revolutionary action when Caniel Was nften in pirison the immediate democratic built an organisation of been among it leaders. Curich understood the mority, and, by extension, of fist half of the book, chapters the colonial world, and i rich moving along ar breathtaking achieve freedom with Curiel's Feyptian nation struggling wr all oriental jewey) and, in thr in which the possible identity Perrault intersperses: personal history (itself the chapters un the oppressed history of Egypr's jewish It grips Moc a thriller: in lessons for socialists: of Curiel's assassin is It is also a story of unravelled. pacc.:
January/February 1988 gifted with thie ability to mispire. would have been changed It's from me: il that man had been mansen of any country. As cre volume one Curiel was nue of all araok-spcaking Egyptian. hyperbole, burl for one am militant comments. take it the may of the middle cast looking forward cageny!" The party cadres and the On the evidence of those rate and truly SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 5 after all, supported the Frenth: in Suck. Test as they supported Nasser's regime with France's slandered Cura casung his: Tothe French Communist their cohoirs worldwide, rhin confirmed their views. They. plans for insading Suez and thus played no small part in "colonial office had already illegitimacy i the ranks of Party whow aprly-named Frypt's humiliation of Fratice in Algeria. auperialism. was kowwn as the only prisoner in Egypt whose jailer bael to be traction in the army land had Gathal Nodul Nasser's frec Curiel's organisation, Thr run recruited a royal pike) Country was forfeited to the nationalist arnry officers of Democratic Muvement fir Nasser's aucement Their changed every week!) and National Liberation Had h sadly the liberation of die whw.were.the let wins,.of alicer movemenr. Communist Parry in rhe 1920s: is yet again resolved not by the: as a pre revolutionary upsurge expelled from his country and officers, and Cure himself is Fallowing die demise ofan tremendous persunal tragedy carlier attempt to establish a activity in Figypt The most left bur by nationalist army ercond. wave of communer reviled by many he would Curiel was a memher of a consider his comrades. disappoinment a! 40