The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-25
A RED ARMY NOVEL
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deals with that revolutionary movement
Of ourselves humby part. 1t tells the
story Of revolutionary movement far from Perogad and MoscGw
fronts Of the revolutions Of few days in the life Of that govern
the expense Of the lives Of the best members Of
In the swiftly and pOgnan told we see vvdy into the
the Russia today and in their lives and deaths ewha
have perforce waited until to see-he nmo human emo
tons Of the revolutionary in its newest phase Of heroic ruler
ship.
not by the first splendid IMAGINATIVE work in which the
which deals merely Dreams the struggles the
marydOms of revouionists but with revuOss at last
attended by all the beauty Of the old dreams involved in the
old i book which marks not 50 much new % Of
literature Kept Yet how good bs able read
% novel move which a IGNs F0 $ Ss%
its best deals with actions and with ideas only illustrated in
much the pamphlet and the sOapbOx In doing
uOnary struggle seriously rproaches
S sp % critics that such O1 the E
where the revolution the pamphlet and stage But
the furhest effort Of the revolution concerned with policies of
economic rOnstruc the adOrs of the revolutionary
maintaining gov
and battle the ito order that has been established
best materials IN the lives men and Who IN their new role
And is interesting that writer
to interpret this revolutionary development Of the old writer's
to the old order to be otherwise than bwdeed and by
what happening Even such writer GOky who few
ya s ss @ toS . 10 .1d as
outside it. himself beyded and unsympathc How indeed
day. GOy was tramp vagabOnd and an Of vaga-
old oyaes were being shattered when mere donten and dis
belief and Withdrawal of sympathy from the Czasc regime
bondage Of which he symbol spiritual vaga
individuals who fell back their indduasm gospel
past tramp GOry tourist orky living in
comfortable yagabOdsgs his Italian whIe unknown him
for the overthrow of Czarism but for the establishment of
pleads for sDss of when there critic
because respected appauded practically
ignored as gentleman ADVENTURE Of amabs intentions and
sSRe TOT @ Or pO 4Ous pilgrims n famous
to-day i've cannon give US novel about the Russia Of
Such novel only be written youth who has
solve who can see what going with fresh He will
Chekhov he win ypca Russians of Classic
o who doubtless e. exist but who longer Of prime n
romantic with futile and wOdy theorists change
day He will the spuator the bueaucra the
he will see the gentle deaisc Young Srocrat led his
dreams of perfection into this hard poearan
rather dsspsd and mUnderood but devoted
What it they are Cyay fighting for he win the Checklists
they he see those overworked rulers
the nsT regime who 60 from the Office to the battlefield and back
for friendship and Illusions undis
struggle give utterly to and die in is mdst
defeat.
It this last that Libednys blaze new
individuals and because all individual effort meets with sns
defeat 1t is only the defeat old
have tragedies greatest
Of the has been from the
individuas point of view life is tragedy But the time
when life be viewed otherwise;
the present which the of the future
otherwise The deaths Of these
Lbedinskys do haye
this brief
ruhessy down the flower life
snached from each others in the midst of kiss hastily
battle though of them painfully
enemies before DEATH 1t still not tragedy this ending.
they belong and
its triumph their Their
lives that There nothing that
this
ter new conceptions of art of life.
Finally would like that this book will peculiar
interest for who belonged
Socialist local; for such reader will familiar
familiar nusances have well eliminated
hastened by trials hardened gofed perhaps
pending martyrdo but sill recognizable with
effort old shaping people
and of the world These revouon any
means strangers TO We know them all And their
Stalmakhov
and Comrades Lisa and Anu but others
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