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theRussian Revolution yet writ-ten,illuminating all thathappened at that time-andsince.\"Absolutely indispen-sable for an understanding ofwhy the Communists thinkand behave as they do.\"  \nTHE August SELECTIONThe RussianRevolutionby ALAN MOOREHEAD  \nJOHN MASON BROWN·BASIL DAVENPORT  \nCLIFTON FADIMAN·GILBERT HIGHET·JOHN P.MARQUAND  \nClub Selections represent the unanimous choice of this Editorial Board  \nRegular Retail Price $5.00·PRICE TO MEMBERS $425  \n“Probably the clearest retelling in Englishof...the greatest single historical eventof our time,\"including hitherto secretinformation.“A narrative of actual eventsdeep-dyed in the colors of conspiracy,treachery,corruption and murder.”  \nREVIEWED BY CLIFTON FADIMAN  \nN THE MINDs of those born before the turn of the century the greatest singlehistorical event of our time may be clearly lighted;but to most of us it iscuriously obscure.The Russian Revolution hangs suspended in a kind oflimbo.On the one hand,it has not yet receded far enough into the past to assumethe(often deceptively)clear outlines of such events as our Civil War.On the otherhand,it is not near enough to us in time to affect us with the reality of somethingexperienced.There is a whole generation of grown-up Americans to whom thenames Nicholas II,Rasputin,Lenin,Trotsky,Kerensky,Kornilov are in varyingdegrees familiar,but who might be stumped if required to associate these namesclearly and in some detail with the Russian Revolution.A kind of haze seems tosurround the event,hardly dissipated by the fact that the most brilliant treatmentsof the subject,such as Trotsky's,are apt to be violently partisan to the point ofmalicious distortion.  \nI  \nAnd yet every passing day forces upon us the grave necessity of a clear compre-hension of the Soviet Union.Few of us can spare the time,or have the interest,  \nOn the front cover:A Bolshevik Commissar urges troops of an armored-car regiment tosupport the revolution,Petrograd,1917.Painting by Carroll Jones.Courtesy Life magazine.  \nneeded to attain this comprehension.But wecan make a start.  \nA few months ago the Club offered to itsmembers John Gunther's universally praisedInside Russia Today.That book draws a vigorouspicture of the present state of the Soviet UnionThough it also supplies excellent backgrounddiscussion,by its very nature it cannot go deeplyinto the matter of origins;its eyes are fixed ontoday.Yet no historical process can be under-stood unless its origins are at least approximatelyclear.What has long been needed is a singlevolume telling the tangled tale of the RussianRevolution in a manner suitable to our owngeneration.  \nThe captive “Citizen”Romanov and his children in Tobolsk,Siberia.From leftto right:Grand Duchesses Olgaand Anastasia,the Czar,Grand Duchess Tatiana,the Czarevich,GrandDuchess Maria.The family was slaughtered in July,1918.  \nWith Mr.Moorehead’s book the gap is filled.He describes it as \"an attempt...to give a  \nbrief,simple and straightforward account of the Russian revolution in 1917,andthe events that led up to it.\"The attempt is successful;he has done no less thanthis,and pretends to no more.He is clear,intelligent and lively,so much so thateven those readers who ordinarily balk at \"history\"will find themselves engrossedin this narrative of actual events deep-dyed in the colors of conspiracy,treachery,corruption and murder.  \nThis is probably the clearest retelling in English of a complex story.But it ismore than that.It is based not merely on the standard literature but on a vastlibrary of hitherto secret records of the German Foreign Office.At the endof World War II these archives were fortunately saved from destruction,andhave since been submitted to the careful scrutiny of scholars.It is uponthese papers that Mr.Moorehead relies in his incontrovertible demonstra-tion that \"the revolution itself was not quite the 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