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>Boris Bazhanov and the damnation of Stalin

>He is a prime source on Stalin from 1923 to 1928.

>There followed a period of suspicion that he had been a Nazi sympathizer, based in part on the fact that Hitler let him go back to Paris a free man, despite his refusal to be the German-controlled gauleiter of German-colonized Russia. This and the wartime alliance of the Western democracies with Stalin against Germany helped induce Bazhanov to be silent for thirty years.

>None of his books were translated into English for publication, although some of his articles were summarized by U.S. and British embassy officers for Washington and London. Bazhanov was not again published in book form until 1977.

>It was only after Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had urged him, in 1976, to write his memoirs, that Bazhanov (now aged seventy-six) again wrote a book. This time he revised, updated, and substantially changed his 1930 book about Stalin. By now Bazhanov's friends inside the USSR had died or no longer needed him to be discreet on their account. The 1976 manuscript, therefore, goes far beyond his 1930 work in such details as what Lenin's secretaries told Bazhanov about Lenin's "testament" and "codicil."

>The 1979 French version, presented here in translation, (in the hope that it will illuminate from a unique perspective, a corner of Kremlin history that has not been generally available in English) is about four times longer than his 40,000 word book of 1930. It contains all the essentials of the 1930 book and adds materially to that earlier manuscript. The 1979 version includes his interesting experiences in Finland in 1940 and in Germany in June 1941. The update of the 1930 book differs mostly in that it offers much more detail than he was then prepared to give on Stalin and the dictator's entourage and methods, naming more names and giving explanations that, in 1930, might have caused his friends inside the USSR to be harmed.