Some insight

[John Dunn]

Федор Ильич Дан was a Menshevik (there is a brief biography on Russian Wikipedia and if you google his name there are other references).  I can't help with Khots, I'm afraid.

John Dunn.

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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of STEPHEN MARDER [asured at VERIZON.NET]
Sent: 02 May 2011 17:58
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] Some insight

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

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