Serge Schmemann of the NY Times wrote that the author was driven " to seek explanations for what went wrong, to understand his own role " and while the reviewer wished for more intrigue ( in the form of detailed accounts of events other than the dissolution of the USSR ), he believed the book was an interesting and detailed account of that period from the perspective of an " honest Bolshevik ".

Serge believed that the working class in Germany was not ready for revolution because it was too moderate.

Serge believed that the expulsion of the opposition meant that the party was completely broken, and refused to support the capitulation.

Russian revolutionary writer, Victor Serge, who was initially part of anarchist movement believed that much of the Black Guards real capacities

Noting that the Soviet Union was in economic recovery by 1935, Serge predicted that Stalin would choose normalization, but by 1936 the terror was expanding, using the assassination of Sergei Kirov in December 1934 as a pretext.

As Serge became increasingly unable to publish articles, he continued to write novels, including The Long Dusk, concerning the fall of France to the Nazis, and The Case of Comrade Tulayev, about the Stalinist purges ( starting with the killing of Sergei Kirov ).

Customers are claimed to include Maurice Béjart, Rudolf Nureyev, Serge Gainsbourg, Carolyn Carlson, Éric Vu-An and Kirov.

Historians like Serge Lancell have questioned the reliability of the figures for the number of troops he had when he left Hispania.

In later interviews with journalists Serge Groussard and Aaron Klein, Lalkin said that he had also expressed concern with the relevant authorities about his team's lodgings.

Paul I was particularly proud to be great-grandson of the illustrious Russian monarch, although his German-born mother, Catherine II ( of the House of Anhalt-Zerbst ), insinuated in her memoirs that Paul's natural father had been her lover Serge Saltykov.

51, a work commissioned by Serge Lifar, who had been appointed maitre de ballet at the Paris Opéra.

In 2004, Australia threatened to cut its aid to Vanuatu when then-Prime Minister Serge Vohor reappointed officials who had been dismissed after being charged with criminal activity.

It is suggested that he was not Peter's son at all, but that his mother had engaged in an affair — to which Elizabeth had consented — with a young officer named Serge Saltykov, and that he was Paul's real father.

" Many other well-known Russian and Jewish artists eventually sought to escape: these included Chaim Soutine, Max Ernst, Max Beckmann, Ludwig Fulda, author Victor Serge and prize-winning author Vladimir Nabokov, who although not Jewish himself, had a " passionate interest " in Jews and Israel.

The Rangers made the Finals twice in the 1970s, but lost both times to two ' 70s powerhouses ; in six games to the Boston Bruins in, who were led by such stars as Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge, Johnny Bucyk, and Wayne Cashman ; and in five games to the Canadiens in, who had Bob Gainey, Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson, Ken Dryden, Guy Lapointe, and Serge Savard.

Having purchased the minor-league Quebec Aces, the team had a distinctly Francophone flavor in its early years, with Parent, Rochefort, Andre Lacroix, Serge Bernier, Jean-Guy Gendron, Simon Nolet and Rosaire Paiement among others.

Barbusse in turn was harshly criticized for his admiration of Stalin and his propagandistic activities on behalf of Soviet Russia by his former comrade Victor Serge, who noted that Barbusse had dedicated a book to Leon Trotsky before Stalin had definitively won the power struggle against Trotsky, only to denounce Trotsky as a traitor after the latter's fall from power.

In fact, when Serge Danot was interviewed by Joan Bakewell on Late Night Line-Up in 1968 his associate ( perhaps Jean Biard ) said that in France it was thought at first that the UK version of Pollux had been renamed De Gaulle, mishearing the name Dougal ( as seen in the Channel 4 documentary The Return Of The Magic Roundabout ( broadcast 08: 50 on December 25, 1991 and 18: 00 on January 5, 1992 ), and in the BBC4 documentary The Magic Roundabout Story ( 2003 )).

After two years, Slonimsky moved to Boston to work as an assistant for Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Serge Koussevitzky, for whom he had earlier worked as a rehearsal pianist in Paris.

The couple had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, born 20 November 1860, who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann ( 1886 – 1975 ) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann ( 1881 – 1960 ); and Jeanine Dumas ( 3 May 1867 – 1943 ), who married Ernest d ' Hauterive ( 1864 – 1957 ), son of George Lecourt d ' Hauterive and his wife Léontine de Leusse.

Many early synthesizer modules had modules with height in integer inches: 11 " ( e. g., Roland 100 ), 10 " ( e. g., Wavemakers ), 9 " ( e. g., Aries ), 8 " ( e. g., ARP 2500 ), 7 " ( e. g., Polyfusion, Buchla, Serge ), 6 " ( e. g., Emu ) and width in 1 / 4 " inch multiples.

Photograph of the wrecked Tiger 007, taken by French civilian Mr. Serge Varin in 1945, still in the field near Gaumesnil where it had been stopped a year before.

This was further enhanced when a French civilian, Serge Varin, who took the only known photo of the destroyed Tiger, stated that in his opinion the tank had been destroyed by an air attack.

The work was written in response to a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation ( run by the conductor Serge Koussevitzky ) following Bartók's move to the United States from his native Hungary, which he had fled because of World War II.

Pamela and Serge had also departed, while Dusty McHugh moved to Jamaica, leaving Yasmin and Benji-and the shop-in the care of her sister-in-law Pearl McHugh ( Doña Croll ).

He was also given the opportunity by Serge Diaghilev to write music to The Firebird after Lyadov had failed to do so.

They had two sons, Claude and Serge.

He was a student of Prof. Serge Elisséeff, who had been the first Western graduate of the University of Tokyo.

Dorian then had her gynecologist, Serge Bordat, abort the baby.

The Center also had a large collection of Buchla, Moog, and Serge Modular synthesizers.

The debt arrangements have been personally negotiated by ( then ) Defense Minister ( and now President ) Serge Sarkisian, Kocharian ’ s closest political associate.

Bartók's last work might well have been the String Quartet No. 6 but for Serge Koussevitzky's commission for the Concerto for Orchestra.

It has been hypothesized by Serge Payette that the Spruce-Moss forest ecosystem was changed into the lichen woodland biome due to the initiation of two compounded strong disturbances: large fire and the appearance and attack of the spruce budworm.

Much of the present-day organization's symbolism has been inherited from its days as the NWMP, including the distinctive Red Serge uniform, paramilitary heritage, and mythos as a frontier force.

This dunk was been popularized in the ABA Dunk Contest by Julius Erving, as well as the NBA Dunk Contest by different players including Michael Jordan, Vince Carter, and Serge Ibaka.

Libération was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, Bernard Lallement, Jean-Claude Vernier, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July and has been published from 3 February 1973, in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.

Their music has been described as a cross between The Smiths and Serge Gainsbourg with Lightburn's singing voice being likened to Morrissey as well as Blur's Damon Albarn.

The novel then takes a complete new direction in terms of both tone and style, as Serge — suffering from amnesia and total long-term memory loss, with no idea who or where he is beyond his first name — is doted upon by Albine, the whimsical, innocent and entirely uneducated girl who has been left to grow up practically alone and wild in the vast, sprawling, overgrown grounds of Le Paradou.

Both Serge and Beate Klarsfeld were revealed to have been regular Stasi contacts.

In 2004, Serge Dassault became a senator, and in this position, he has been an outspoken advocate of conservative positions on economic and employment issues, claiming that France's taxes and workforce regulations ruin its entrepreneurs.

Prokofiev, who had been working on the opera for years, was reluctant to let the music languish unperformed, and after hearing a concert performance of its second act given by Serge Koussevitzky in June 1928, he adapted parts of the opera to make his third symphony ( shortly afterwards, he drew on his ballet The Prodigal Son for his Symphony No. 4 in similar fashion ).

Serge has been diagnosed with a variety of mental illnesses, and has been prescribed a " cocktail " of drugs to keep him stable.

At the same time Vahid Halilhodzic is approached to become manager, even though Serge Le Dizet had only been in place for six months.

In 1912 Serge was judged to have been involved in acts of terrorism and was sentenced to five years in solitary confinement for his involvement with the Bonnot Gang.

In October 1918 the Danish Red Cross intervened, arranging for Serge and other revolutionaries to be exchanged for Bruce Lockhart and other anti-Bolsheviks who had been imprisoned in Russia.

The Russakovs were a Russian Jewish family who had been expelled from France and had travelled to Petrograd on the same boat as Serge.

Serge soon realized that the defeat of the opposition was inevitable, and by 1927, the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, he concluded that the reaction had been completed.