Some insight

[STEPHEN MARDER]

A friend has asked me to shed some light on two names which appear in the 
following quote from a book by David Bezmozgis called "The Free World" about a 
family of Soviet emigres stuck in Rome. Unfortunately, I've been unable to do 
this. Perhaps someone who reads this will have some thoughts. Here is the 
passage:

"They cleaned away all the traces of landowners and bourgeous bosses in the 
country and took power into their own hands. They took the land from the 
landowners, plants and factories from the capitalists; they fought the enemies 
of the workers on all fronts. In the fire of the great socialist revolution, the 
workers and peasants burned Kolchak, Yudenich, Vrangel, Denikin, Pilsudskii, 
Petlyura, Chernov, Khots, Dan, Martov, and Abramovich... This year a revolution 
in Russia; next year--a world revolution!" (p. 160)

Any ideas about who "Khots" and "Dan" were?

Steve Marder

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                    http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------