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Saturday, January 19, 2019
Where is writer of hoax book " The Wolf of the Kremlin " , Stuart Kahan ?
Eighty years since the first Moscow Trial
How extremely difficult it is to find an honest book on the Russian Revolution and the old Bolshevik leaders. I commend SEP writer David North for his scholarship here ( He corrected a number of false biographies of Lenin and Trotsky ).
"The charges at the trial were fantastic: aside from killing Kirov, the defendants supposedly attempted (but failed) to assassinate Stalin, Kaganovich, Voroshilov, Zhdanov, Ordzhonikidze and several other Soviet leaders "
Just yesterday I spotted a curiously titled book in my favorite antique shop in Greenville, R.I . ( " Stillwater " ) : " The Wolf of the Kremlin - the First Biography of L.M. Kaganovich - the Soviet Union's Architect of Fear " by one ( hard to locate today ) Stuart Kahan .
From a Kirkus review ( 1987 ? ) : "This compelling chronicle tells us more about the gray mentality of Russia than any dozen histories of the USSR and deserves a wide public ".
IN FACT -according to living relatives of this L.M Kaganovich- the book is a complete hoax. They were responding just after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
I suspect this American journalist, Stuart Kahan, was soon disgraced and sent out to some American equivalent of " Siberia " for discredited journalists. Kahon even claimed to be a nephew of this sinister " Wolf of the Kremlin ".
Perhaps some diligent World Socialist Web Site scholar can research this hoax.
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IN FACT -according to living relatives of this L.M Kaganovich- the book is a complete hoax. They were responding just after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
I suspect this American journalist, Stuart Kahan, was soon disgraced and sent out to some American equivalent of " Siberia " for discredited journalists. Kahon even claimed to be a nephew of this sinister " Wolf of the Kremlin ".
Perhaps some diligent World Socialist Web Site scholar can research this hoax.