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The strange case of D. S. Mirsky.(D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939 )

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| January 01, 2002 | Kramer, Hilton | COPYRIGHT 2002 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Of the millions put to death in the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign of terror in the 1930s, the case of the Russian literary critic and historian D. S. Mirsky (1890-1939) is surely one of the strangest. Unlike so many other victims of the Terror, Mirsky may be said to have written his own death warrant by choosing to return to the Soviet Union from a decade-long exile in Britain at the very moment that Stalin was declaring war on intellectuals like himself as class enemies. There were many other Russians, to be sure, who were persuaded to repatriate themselves in order to participate in the brave new world of Soviet Communism, only to find that their ultimate reward was ...


    
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