He candidly expressed, in his book Baik From the USSR his disappointment with the Soviet society he saw on that occasion. So that every time you talk to one Russian you feel as if you were talking to them all. That book was published, not in the Soviet Union but in foreign countries, and was received favorably. It was decided to award Pasternak the Nobel prize, but, as a result, at home he was expelled from the Writer's Union, and denounced as a reactionary anti-Socialist writer. Marxism is too uncertain of its ground to be a science.
Sciences are more balanced, more objective.
I don't know a movement more self-centered and further removed from the facts than Marxism. He also denounced the attitude taken by the revolutionaries toward intellectuals, saying, At first everything is splendid. We welcome good, honest work, we welcome ideas, especially new ideas. Artists should manifest their individuality in their work to the utmost degree. By so doing, they please God and other people.