Saddening to see how Deutscher's perfectly reasonable hopes for the development of a genuine Socialist consciousness in post-Stalin Russia were dashed in the end. However, to explain what went astray, you had better begin with Deutscher than to seek such explanation in the kind of hysterical, cheap anti-communist ranting whose choicest specimens (Koestler, Orwell's 1984 et coetera)he analyzes at the two first essays of this superb collection.
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