Some insight

Evgeny Steiner es9 at SOAS.AC.UK
Mon May 2 16:30:27 UTC 2011


Gotz (Гоц, Абрам Рафаилович), SR.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:58 PM, STEPHEN MARDER <asured at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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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