SEELANGS Digest - 1 May 2011 to 2 May 2011 (#2011-139)
Susan Welsh
welsh_business at VERIZON.NET
Tue May 3 11:06:09 UTC 2011
1. Some insight
Khots = Gots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avram_Gots
Here's on Dan:
http://tiny.cc/cessg
That's a quick search, anyway.
Susan
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On 05/03/2011 01:01 AM, SEELANGS automatic digest system wrote:
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> 1. Some insight (3)
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> Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 08:58:58 -0700
> From: STEPHEN MARDER<asured at VERIZON.NET>
> Subject: Some insight
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> A friend has asked me to shed some=A0light on two names which appear in the=
> =0Afollowing quote from a book by David Bezmozgis called "The Free World" =
> about a =0Afamily of Soviet emigres stuck in Rome.=A0Unfortunately, I've be=
> en unable to do =0Athis. Perhaps someone who reads this will have some thou=
> ghts. Here is the =0Apassage:=0A=0A"They cleaned away all the traces of lan=
> downers and bourgeous bosses in the =0Acountry and took power into their ow=
> n hands. They took the land from the =0Alandowners, plants and factories fr=
> om the capitalists; they fought the enemies =0Aof the workers on all fronts=
> . In the fire of the great socialist revolution, the =0Aworkers and peasant=
> s burned Kolchak, Yudenich, Vrangel, Denikin, Pilsudskii, =0APetlyura, Cher=
> nov, Khots, Dan, Martov, and Abramovich... This year a revolution =0Ain Rus=
> sia; next year--a world revolution!" (p. 160)=0A=0AAny ideas about who "Kho=
> ts" and "Dan" were?=0A=0ASteve Marder
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> Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 17:13:59 +0100
> From: John Dunn<John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK>
> Subject: Re: Some insight
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> 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.
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> John Dunn.
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> Sent: 02 May 2011 17:58
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Some insight
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> 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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> Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 17:30:27 +0100
> From: Evgeny Steiner<es9 at SOAS.AC.UK>
> Subject: Re: Some insight
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> Gotz (=D0=93=D0=BE=D1=86, =D0=90=D0=B1=D1=80=D0=B0=D0=BC =D0=A0=D0=B0=D1=84=
> =D0=B0=D0=B8=D0=BB=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=B8=D1=87), SR.
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> 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 t=
> o
>> 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 t=
> he
>> 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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