Books: The Rublerousers

THE RED EXECUTIVE (334 pp.)—David Granick—Doubleday ($4.50).

It is 112 years since Marx promised his Communist apocalypse, when a new and superior kind of nonbourgeois man would be born, and 30 years or so since Poet W. B. Yeats warned against a possibly similar event—"the blood-dimmed tide," when a "rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." But things, it seems, are neither so bad, nor so good, nor so interesting. According to the researches of U.S. Economist David Granick, Soviet Russia's new man is a devoutly...

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