Robert C. Tucker, in The New Re-public (Jan. 21, 1991), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
Most Western sovietologists have long re- garded the October Revolution of 1917, in which Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized power, as marking a decisive break with the Russian past. But many Soviet intellectuals, free now in the glasnost era to speak their minds, have been taking a very different view, Princeton political sci- entist Tucker reports. As they see it, he says, czarist absolutism and historic...