The rulers of the Soviet era. Dmitrievsky S.V.

Sergey Vasilievich Dmitrievsky (1893-1964)-in the past Socialist-Revolutionaries, then the Bolshevik, the Soviet diplomat, in 1930. The remaining in the West. His pen belongs to several bright journalistic works. Two of them are presented in this publication: these are “Soviet portraits” (1932) and “Stalin” (1931). A wonderful assessment of “portraits” was given by the Russian philosopher Georgy Fedotov in his article “The Fall of Soviet Power”: “Soviet portraits” by S. Dmitrievsky should compile an era in foreign political literature. For the first time, the Kremlin walls moved out before us, and we saw the actors of the Russian revolutionary tragedy in their genuine growth. Under the mask of Heroes, S. Dmitrievsky showed us the businesslike “dignitaries”, already suffering from obesity, but confident in their strengths capable of, nola, but living in the world of departmental affairs, like ministers of the old regime. ” The book of S. Dmitrievsky “Stalin” is remarkable primarily by the fact that it is free from bias and a boulevard approach. It contains conceptual thoughts on the origins of the complete incompatibility of Stalin and Trotsky, tells about the significance of Stalin in the history of Russia and the tasks of the new generation of the Bolsheviks.